Kiryat Bialik Municipality continues to invest in accessibility both physically and educationally. Surveyors of the Kiryat Bialik accessible community continue to map the city to make it accessible to those with special needs. The reviewers went out to check the Sabinia shopping center, which is currently in the final stages of the renovation and upgrading process. The surveyors examined the sidewalks, the slopes, the intensity of the lighting and public disabled services.
Every month the surveyors of the accessible community go on tours in the different areas of the city and many of the findings identified in the past have already been corrected.
"I have a friend and he is different"
In addition to the physical accessibility, Kiryat Bialik invests in the various education programs that explain the acceptance of the other. A unique program is held at the compulsory schools in KiryaI have a friend and he is different" which was presented to coordinators and volunteers of "It's in the garden" At the national Zoom meeting.
The program was written by Rachel Berkowitz at the initiative of the deputy mayor, Dr. Roital Shortz-Sabirsky and the late Edna Haberfeld. The program deals with the acceptance of the different and the other and education for accessibility already at preschool age. The program operates in several compulsory kindergartens in Kiryat Bialik for the ninth year. The purpose of presenting the plan to the national coordinators is to expand it to additional localities.
Respect to all those who deal around the clock, always with optimistic determination to promote, improve and make the subject of accessibility a priority for the entire population Kiryat Bialik, an example and a glory