BALANGA CITY, Bataan – Jonie Capalaran, a person with disability, regularly joins press conferences in Bataan. Capalaran asked Mayor Jose Enrique Garcia III on “what are the plans of the city for PWDs?
“The city council has decided to strengthen present laws and create awareness on the condition of disabled persons here, making it a disabled-friendly city so they can live comfortably,” the mayor answered.
Garcia also disclosed that he will see to it that disabled persons will have proper access to all infrastructures in the city, and existing laws covering PWDs are properly followed.
After the presscon, Capalaran faced the computer, wrote his story and sent it to the Pilipino Star Ngayon where he works as a provincial correspondent for years. He also filed his report with radio station DZRH.
This has been the daily routine for Capalaran aside from bringing to school and fetching his two children from Monday to Friday.
During Saturdays and Sundays, he stays on a little hut in a farm where he attends to some ducks.
What Capalaran does is what able-bodied persons can do. But at 53, he has been in clutches for 50 years. He used to run and actively play like ordinary children.
But at three, he suffered from severe fever, got some injections on his thigh and from then on, his two legs started to shrink.
“Sa katulad kong may kapansanan, huwag kayong mamalagi sa bahay, lakasan ang loob dahil kung ano nagagawa ng walang kapansanan, magagawa naman natin,” Capalaran told others PWDs.
In clutches, he goes up and down the stairs, he drives his own tricycle in gathering news and bringing his two children to school.
Capalaran is one of 398 PWDs in Bataan who celebrated National Disability Prevention Week last week with a parade and various sports activities.
“The city council has decided to strengthen present laws and create awareness on the condition of disabled persons here, making it a disabled-friendly city so they can live comfortably,” the mayor answered.
Garcia also disclosed that he will see to it that disabled persons will have proper access to all infrastructures in the city, and existing laws covering PWDs are properly followed.
After the presscon, Capalaran faced the computer, wrote his story and sent it to the Pilipino Star Ngayon where he works as a provincial correspondent for years. He also filed his report with radio station DZRH.
This has been the daily routine for Capalaran aside from bringing to school and fetching his two children from Monday to Friday.
During Saturdays and Sundays, he stays on a little hut in a farm where he attends to some ducks.
What Capalaran does is what able-bodied persons can do. But at 53, he has been in clutches for 50 years. He used to run and actively play like ordinary children.
But at three, he suffered from severe fever, got some injections on his thigh and from then on, his two legs started to shrink.
“Sa katulad kong may kapansanan, huwag kayong mamalagi sa bahay, lakasan ang loob dahil kung ano nagagawa ng walang kapansanan, magagawa naman natin,” Capalaran told others PWDs.
In clutches, he goes up and down the stairs, he drives his own tricycle in gathering news and bringing his two children to school.
Capalaran is one of 398 PWDs in Bataan who celebrated National Disability Prevention Week last week with a parade and various sports activities.
