The Brovary City Council continues to work on a draft program to create a barrier-free space in the Brovary City Territorial Community for 2025-2029, a UNN correspondent reports.
The Brovary City Council hosted a large meeting with representatives of local governments to discuss the city's urgent needs to improve the situation, including physical accessibility.
"Creating a barrier-free space is a very urgent problem today, because people with disabilities cannot always get into our institutions, residential buildings and shelters. That's why I would like this program to be taken responsibly and very seriously," said Brovary Mayor Ihor Sapozhko, addressing the audience.
Among the issues discussed were improving the accessibility of shelters for people with limited mobility and purchasing a bus for children with disabilities. In addition, during the meeting, Ihor Sapozhko drew attention to the need to improve accessibility of citizens with disabilities, including wounded soldiers, to administrative buildings of local governments.
Currently, the community rents a specially equipped bus that transports children with disabilities to and from school. However, due to rising prices, it is more profitable to buy it once and put it on the balance sheet, the city council explained.
After developing the relevant draft program, it must be approved by the Brovary City Council.
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Earlier, UNN reported that the city authorities of Brovary are developing a program for 4-5 years to improve accessibility and comfortable movement of people with disabilities. In particular, the Brovary community plans to equip special lifts for people with disabilities in apartment buildings. According to Mayor Ihor Sapozhko, this option is optimal for the community's old apartment buildings.
Olena Akopian, an advisor to the mayor of Brovary, told UNN that all public institutions in Brovary are accessible for people with disabilities. All major shopping centers are equipped with ramps, elevators, and hygiene rooms for people with disabilities. Various commercial establishments and organizations have begun to seek consultations more often to properly equip or redesign their entrances to make them accessible to people with disabilities.
In addition, a diving rehabilitation project is being implemented in the city for Ukrainian soldiers who lost limbs defending Ukraine from Russian occupiers, family members of the victims, internally displaced persons, and veterans.