To mark National AccessAbility Week, which began on Sunday and runs until Saturday, the Team Jigger Foundation in Lacombe has extended its 2025 Chair Aware event to the end of June.
The week celebrates the valuable contributions and leadership of persons with disabilities in Canada.
It also highlights the important work of allies, organizations and communities that are removing barriers and striving toward a more accessible and disability-inclusive country.
This year’s theme is “Breaking barriers together: Paving the way for an inclusive future.”
The Accessible Canada Act (ACA), which came into force in 2019, aims to create a barrier-free Canada by 2040, which is especially significant to the more than six million Canadians aged 15 and over who have a disability.
The legislation benefits all Canadians—particularly persons with disabilities—through the proactive identification, removal and prevention of barriers in seven key areas:
- Employment
- The built environment
- Information and communication technologies (ICT)
- Communication other than ICT
- The design and delivery of programs and services
- The procurement of goods, services and facilities
- Transportation
To truly understand these barriers Team Jigger has the Chair Aware event which is geared towards shining a light on everyday challenges.
Participants are given a set of tasks to complete like grocery shopping, going to the bank or even getting fuel which become increasingly more difficult and time-consuming when you require a wheelchair.
The event gives able-bodied individuals a chance to briefly experience mobility challenges and carry that awareness into more inclusive decisions.
To register for the 2025 Chair Aware event, and to break some barriers click here.
**With information from the Government of Canada
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