Contact Us
Telephone : (+27) 028 3121889 |
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Please let us know if you need information about a facility
that is not listed - we will try our best to accommodate
you.
You are welcome to inform us about other wheelchair accessible
facilities and send us your pictures.
This website will be updated on a regular basis and upgrading of
some facilities is expected to take place during the year. New facilities will be added as soon as possible.
About Us
Karin Coetzee
B. Occupational Therapy
University of Stellenbosch
Disabled Travel has been designed as an off shoot from the Access for Citizens Committee - Proudly Accessible, both wheelchair initiatives established by Karin Coetzee, a qualified Occupational Therapist based in Hermanus. She has extensive experience in spinal rehabilitation and wheelchair training, gained over a period of 22 years from Hospitals within South Africa such as Wentworth and Addington in Durban, Lady Michaelis and Victoria Hospitals in Cape Town, The Spinal Unit at the Conradie Hospital in Pinelands and Peers Private Clinic in the United States.
An unfortunate skiing accident 3 years ago, left Karin with a broken leg and the reality of being wheelchair bound for a period of 3 months. Suddenly she was enlightened even further to the plight disabled people face on a daily basis when they attempt to complete the most mundane tasks in gaining access to public amenities and buildings, and the disregard with which they are treated when they challenge why access is limited and blatantly restricted to those able bodied people in the community.
Armed with both aspects of the situation, Karin has made the commitment to improve, educate and enlighten the community she resides in and within time, she hopes to increase the awareness throughout our Rainbow Nation to the fact that both disabled people and able bodied people deserve access to all amenities available in our society to enrich and improve our quality of life!
- Written by Nikki Stanley
Karin, with a broken knee (2004) struggling to cross the road.
Karin received the 2007 Hermanus Woman of the Year award from
the mayoress.
Karin with Ari Seirlis, National Director of Quad-Para
Asscociation of SA.
Access for Citizens Committee:
http://www.hermanus.co.za/com/proudlyaccessible/