Skrikwekkend, vreemd, gedisori\u00ebnteerd, \u2019n belewenis \u2013 so beskryf lede van die publiek wat Vrydag (11 Oktober) vir \u2019n wyle in die skoene van siggestremdes gestaan het toe hulle vir sowat \u2019n uur geblinddoek en deur die Mountain Mill Shopping Mall in Worcester begelei is.<\/p>\n
Hierdie bewusmakingsveldtog was deel van nasionale Oogsorgmaand wat van middel September tot middel Oktober gevier word.<\/p>\n
\u2019n Paar siendes wat geblinddoek is en saam met siggestremdes aan die mall walk<\/span> deelgeneem het, het hul ervarings met Standard & Breederivier Gazette<\/span> gedeel. <\/p>\n \u201cDit voel verskriklik vreemd. Ek voel baie gedisori\u00ebnteerd, maar terselfdertyd is ek ook nuuskierig om uit te vind waar ons in die gebou is,\u201d s\u00ea Suzaan Scholtz van Worcester Toerisme. <\/p>\n \u201cEk probeer dit uit-figure<\/span> met my ander sintuie. Dit is nogal skrikwekkend, maar gelukkig het my begeleier meer as 40 jaar ervaring in [die begeleiwerk] wat sy doen, so ek dink ek is oukei<\/span>,\u201d s\u00ea sy.<\/p>\n \u201cDis \u2019n belewenis. Ek dink nie ons besef hoe bevoorreg ons is om te kan sien nie. Ek is glad nie bang nie, want ek voel veilig saam met haar [die begeleier],\u201d s\u00ea nog \u2019n siende, Amanda Krouwkamp. <\/p>\n Carel van der Merwe van die Worcester Moedergemeente s\u00ea die mall walk <\/span>is vir hom \u2019n ongelooflike ervaring. <\/p>\n \u201cEk is self siggestremd, want ek is in \u2019n mate nagblind, maar dis mos nou \u2019n heel ander ervaring omdat dit helder oordag in \u2019n baie besige plek is.\u201d<\/p>\n Vir Standard & Breederivier Gazette<\/span> se verslaggewer, Enrico Claassen, wat ook geblinddoek is en aan die mall walk<\/span> deelgeneem het, was dit nogal \u2019n skrikwekkende ervaring. <\/p>\n \u201cEk het die heeltyd gevrees ek gaan in iets gaan vasloop. <\/p>\n \u201cOmdat my ander sintuie soos my gehoor in daardie stadium baie sensitief ingestel was, het ek die stemme van inkopiegangers wat ek toe so helder kon hoor, nogal intimiderend gevind.\u201d<\/p>\n Corrie Malan, die geldinsamelaar en bemarkingsbestuurder by Innovation for the Blind, s\u00ea die hoofdoel van die mall walk<\/span> is om siggestremdes te ori\u00ebnteer om later vryelik en met selfvertroue in die winkelsentrum te kan rondbeweeg.<\/p>\n Volgens haar het die ori\u00ebntering ook ten doel dat siggestremdes presies weet watter winkels aan hul linkerkant en regterkant is en waar die eetplekke is, sodat hulle later op hul eie daarheen kan gaan.<\/p>\n \u201cDie meeste van ons inwoners wat blind is, kom nie eintlik baie in die mall<\/span> nie. Hy of sy moet geori\u00ebnteer word; dieselfde met gidshonde.\u201d<\/p>\n Vyf siggestremdes met gidshonde en vyf met hul kieries het aan die mall walk <\/span>deelgeneem. Die twee groepe het elk \u2019n begeleier gehad. Die altesaam sewe siendes wat geblinddoek was, het elk \u2019n begeleier gehad. <\/p>\n \u201cMense is nie altyd bewus van al die uitdagings wat \u2019n mall<\/span> bied nie, byvoorbeeld die motors wat in die gange van die sentrum uitgestal word. \u2019n Siggestremde moet bewus wees van daardie gebiede.<\/p>\n \u201cHy of sy moet staatmaak op sy of haar begeleier en die terugvoering wat hulle van die betrokke begeleier kry. Nog \u2019n uitdaging is dat iemand dalk in \u2019n blinde kan vasloop.\u201d<\/p>\n Volgens Malan het winkel-assistente in die winkelsentrum die siggestremdes meer vertel van onder meer wat die winkel alles verkoop, waarna iets klein aan die siggestremdes oorhandig is. \u201cOns noem dit \u2019n tipe van \u2019n skattejag.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDis my tweede besoek aan die mall<\/span>,\u201d s\u00ea Annette Klaasee, \u2019n siggestremde.<\/p>\n \u201cAs ek alleen was, sou ek baie verlore gevoel het omdat die plek groot en oop is. Dis darem nou nie so erg dat ek sal wil weghardloop nie. Omdat ek saam met die ander was, sal ek nie s\u00ea dit was skrikwekkend of intimiderend nie. In di\u00e9 stadium is dit \u2019n opwindende gevoel. Ek sal nie sommer alleen hierheen kom nie.\u201d <\/p>\n Joseph Matheatau, \u2019n siggestremde en die eerste gekwalifiseerde blinde barista in Suid-Afrika, s\u00ea Vrydag was die eerste keer in vier jaar dat hy die Mountain Mill-sentrum besoek het. 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