Bid to lift stigma of disability

STUDENTS are spending a week in a wheelchair to highlight the effects of disabilities on young people.

Transition Year girls from Mount Mercy College on the Model Farm Road say the daily difficulties faced by the physically disabled are not always considered by people without a physical disability.

Sixteen students have taken on the project, Don’t label the Disabled, as part of a Young Social Innovators Project, which aims to raise aware- ness of a particular social problem.