Wednesday, August 15, 2007

We owe a duty to persons with disability (II)

Even though, Helen Keller was blind, deaf and mute from childhood, she became an enviable prolific writer and educationalist. Franklin Roosevelt D, the president of United States of America between 1933 and 1945, was severely handicapped by polio. Although he was totally deaf, Ludwig Van Beethoven composed musical masterpieces. Inestimable physically challenged persons out there participate and emerge triumphantly in weight lifting, horse race, marathon race in wheel chairs and other challenging sports. Indeed, PWDs do not lack the ability to think, learn, create and perform. We therefore owe a sense of duty to PWDs since they are co-actors in our development.

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