Project mobile despite disability

Report of the Project “Mobile despite disability”

Day 1
The Day started with a meeting where every group got an Indian pupil to his group. Our group is made of Falk, Neele, Rieke, Amandeep and Marie-Anna. Our topic is the mobility of disabled people. We had the room in the container to work at our project. Usually we are five persons, but Rieke was ill on that day. We started working on it at nine a.m. On that day we specialised our work on planning the next day of our project. We want to go to an interview on the next day and rent a wheel chair for the whole project week. With that we wanted to film scenes in the supermarket while trying to buy things in the wheel chair to feel like a disabled person in his everyday life. Every detail was planned by us. Especially the interview on Tuesday. The interview should be made with Josepha Busse from the social station of the Caritas in Varel. We collected questions for the interview. We made it up to nine questions we wanted to ask Mrs Busse. The questions are about disabled people, in which ways they are limited in everyday live, what the government does for an easier live etc. After that we drove to Rieke to talk about the questions and the plan oft he next day, because she planned to be fit on the next day again. Back at school again, we made a break of 15 minutes and prepared everything for our visit at the sozial station in Varel and the excursion to the super market, so the next day of our project week can come.

Day 2
Today our main actions were the interview with Josepha Bosse from the sozial station in Varel and we filmed a shopping tour in the supermarket. Our group met at eight a.m. in the container at school. Rieke was also there today, so after collecting everything we needed in Riekes car, we drove to the Hospital in Varel where the Caritas is as well. There we met Josepha Bosse, leader of those who care for old and disabled people. We sat down in an eating hall and asked her our questions. She answered all our questions very well and in detail. We had a camera so we were able to film the whole interview. That has to be switched to the right length after the ending of the interview. After the interview we were able to ask questions emerged from the interview. She knows about everything very much. From the seniors residence we rent a wheel chair for our excursion. Being at school again we made our experiment with the wheel chair. We started at the school building, trying to manage the way up to the supermarket to buy things so one can see the difficulties disabled people are confronted with in everyday life. We found out that most thing weren’t easy. In fact our tour with the wheelchair was very exhausting. We followed the action with the camera, too. Rieke doesn’t fell very well so she went home again to be fit on the day of presentation. Falk, Neele, Aman and Marie-Anna alternated so everyone was able to drive with the wheel chair. In the supermarket we tried to get products also from the higher shelf. It was difficult and sometimes we were needed to use our lags what usually isn’t possible for disabled. On the way back we all also alternated, which was very funny and hard for us. That experiment raised our respect for people in the wheel chair. Back at school we mixed our filming material and switched the right scenes together. From the interview and from the excursion we built a short film we want to present tomorrow at the presentation evening. Till the end of the day it was only a little part of all that done. The rest has to be mixed on the next day. At 1.10 p.m. we stopped up our group work for that day. We were proud to have done the most of our group work, we planned on Monday. On the next day we just have to end up the cutting of our film sequences.