Greg Allan Pialago (right) shows how the PWD-friendly tricycle carries passenger on a wheelchair. (CDN PHOTO / Norman Mendoza)
Four tricycles especially designed for persons with disabilities (PWDs) and senior citizens were turned over by Cebu 6th district Rep. Luigi Quisumbing to the federations of the welfare of persons with disabilities (PWDs) and senior citizens of Mandaue City last Friday.
Greg Allan Pialago, a PWD and councilor of barangay Umapad who is also president of the federation, expressed gratitude to Quisumbing for coming up with an initiative that will help mobilize PWDs and senior citizens.
Quisumbing said he once saw a similar model of these PWD-friendly vehicles in Manila prompting him to ask his grandfather Norberto Quisumbing, owner of Norkis Group of Companies, to manufacture the same.
“I’ve learned that the federation has difficulty in terms of mobility and so I remembered the PWD-friendly vehicles in Manila,” said Quisumbing.
Two PWD-friendly tricycles will be for the PWDs and the other two are for senior citizens.
Each federation is in-charge of the vehicles’ maintenance.
Users must first ask permission from the federation before they can use the vehicle.
The PWD-friendly vehicle can accommodate a PWD in a wheelchair and is rigged with a steel ramp for easier access into the vehicle. Each unit is equipped with wheelchair and crutches. It is an enclosed vehicle so passengers are protected from rain and the heat of the sun.
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