[Faith-talk] Blind people in 2014. Challenges and barriers.

[Mostafa]

Hello everyone.

I hope you all are keeping really well, and that your Holiday goes typically as planned, if not even better.

Today I intended to talk about our ambitions for blind people goals in 2014.

What we have planned on that regard so far?

I am not talking about the domestic level.

My aim is to ask that question globally.

Have we improved the blind people employment rate in some parts of the world?

As blind people, I think  we need to be more interconnected on international basis.

I think, that we are significantly prosperous on doing that on individual level.

But, we demand to proceed into organizational and integrative levels.

I always wanted to reach the World Blind Union.

I want to communicate with them regarding the employment rate for   blind people in Egypt.

I want to reach their international coordinator for partnership proposals.

     I looked at their website under the contact us page, and I could not find that particular entitlement.

I just learned that they based in Toronto, Canada.

But I am sure that they are keen to reach out.

I want to benefit from their experience on tackling the legislative procedures, what obsticles they had to confront, and how they were successful to perfectly overcome them.

I am incisively convinced, that the main barrier of blind people employment is the deficiency of the legal guarantees.

We demand to substantially work on that.

We should not work on that  randomly or individually.

We rather have to unitedly integrate on establishing the legislation that impressively amends the employment rate for adequate blind applicants.

     In Egypt, we have to permanently abandon the 5% law.

The employment rate has  to essentially depend on your qualifications and achievments, in spite of any irrelevant circumstances.

Canada is known for being the top worldwide country on recognizing the humanrights principles.

  Thus, I want to benefit from any experience therein on that regard.

Finally, I want to add another personal goal for 2014.

I want to participate in improving the employment rate for blind people in Egypt, and it has to depend on the qualification, not a certain percentage to be fulfilled.

This is my battle for Egyptian blind people in 2014.

And I will initially relate to the constitution draft, which has been scheduled for referendum in the fourteenth and the fifteenth of January.
   
It supposedly guarantees that right for blind people.

We will see about that.

I wish you all a pleasant provenience of 2014.

Thank you so much for reading my post, and Happy New Year.

Mostafa.

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