Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer
Mohammed Ahmad Al Marri
who need it. The civic body takes feedback from the residents regarding its services and develops its plans based on these views and requirements, constantly evaluating its initiatives to ensure maximum benefit to different segments of the society. The municipality has also built its service centres in a way that these are easily accessible for people with disabilities. Electronic doors that ensure ease of entry, special counters with low height, staff that knows sign language, ipads to show procedures related to service applications and important documents for hearing-impaired customers, and an alarm system with red lights to inform the customer
Khaled Al Kamda
Exhibitors from more than 30 countries in case of any untoward happening are a few of those facilities. Lootah noted that the Municipality has been taking numerous initiatives towards integrating persons with disabilities with all segments of society, enhancing their potential and developing the community’s commitment to persons with disability. The civic body is actively working in this direction by making its employees and residents having disabilities participate in events, forums, exhibitions, voluntary activities, sharing
Ahmed Mahboob Musabih
best practices with them, providing a friendly work environment, providing them easy access to its services, enhancing means of effective communication and raising awareness about the rights of people with disabilities. He explained that the Dubai Municipality’s efforts to making Dubai disabled-friendly include focusing on specifications for buildings and facilities such as parks, streets, markets, service buildings, to ensure that these are disabled friendly. His Excellency Mattar Al Tayer, Director General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) confirmed the authority’s keenness on providing all projects and facilities and mass transport services to be friendly to persons with disabilities as a commitment by the authority to implement the terms of the Federal Law concerning the Rights of people with disabilities, according the law, “It’s necessary for roads, public vehicles, land and sea transportation to have the technical specifications required for the use and need of the disabled, it also comes as an implementation of the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, | Manafez Dubai | February 2016 | 21