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Imagine what it would be like to live in a megacity if you had a disability.
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Description Narrator (00:00:00): Footage of a woman with her back to the camera. Using a cane, she walks through the streets of New York City, rides the escalator down to the subway, and waits for the train. A subway car passes by.
How would you navigate the city if you couldn’t walk, see signs or hear cars passing by?
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Description Narrator (00:00:00): Footage of a woman in a wheelchair with her back to the camera. She traverses a trash strewn dirt street of Lagos, pushes up a steep ramp, and approaches a busy road.
By 2050, it’s expected that 15% of all people who live in a city will have a disability. That’s nearly 1 billion people.
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Description Narrator (00:00:00): Footage of a woman with her back to the camera, using her white cane to cross a busy street in Mumbai with the help of a stranger. Additional footage shows her alone, swinging her cane side-to-side along the ground.
What if that was you ?
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Description Narrator (00:00:00): The screen is split into thirds, showing all three women with their backs to the camera on the streets of their respective cities.
Getting around
Find out how challenging it is to navigate New York City, Lagos and Mumbai when you have a disability.
Visit the cities
Explore stories
Meet Rebecca, Olajumoke and Nidhi – three women living with disabilities, who show us how their daily lives are impacted by the inaccessibility in their cities.
Meet the women
