A woman who is engaged in disability on the island where the inequality is full

Youtube Francis Francis Subscribers – created to document her journey after he was diagnosed with osteoarthritis only 24 – did not see tears.

They were also not talked until she spread the most acute personal struggle, alone behind closed doors.

Once she was told she could lose the ability to walk 40 years, Joshuanet was determined to accept life by going every natural trail in her native anti -igu and visiting each of the 365 beaches on the Caribbean’s island while she could still.

Constantly lifted and smiling in her videos and in public, her private tears were strengthened when she lost work as the head of the restaurant – from her state, she said – after her mortgage and dreams to create her own house.

Six years of the young mother’s solar person is the one she uses to fight her public battle: he stands for the rights of other people who live with disabilities in the country where the non -sophistication is overcrowded and the decisive resources are lacking.

It directs its energy to the pioneer non -profit organization, which it founded in 2023, Good Teup 268, which strives for a lighter future for people with physical problems.

“Arthritis has changed my life so much, I can only imagine how it should be for someone with a serious disability,” says Joshuanet BBC.

Osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease that causes pain and rigidity, usually affects the elderly, but can strike at any age.

“I couldn’t believe when I was diagnosed. My biggest fear was: what’s going on with life?” – says Joshuanet.

The far -running work of good people range from pressing the creation of a tribunal by equal rights for the presidency in discriminatory practice, to the disposal program, which, in turn, uses locals with disabilities.

The latter have already been implemented in more than 80 local schools, distracting about one million bottles and cans from national debris. Eight people were hired for sorting and processing, and sometimes reports, waste.

Good people also launched a nationwide educational program to encourage more residents to process, which used a glass.

He says work with the organization changes life.

“There are many people with disabilities who have no one to address. Joshuanet has formed me to believe in more. It was from – I used it to apply for university and entered,” Kelisha admires.

She hopes her degree on the Internet for Tourism Management will help her in the end to unite her small tourist campaign with good people to create additional employment opportunities.

“The change begins with us. I was surprised to see how much plastic we were led from the landfill in a short period of time; imagine when everyone did it,” she says.

There were also smaller triumphs. As with a 10-year-old girl who could not use the toilet at school without help because of the lack of comfortable wheelchairs. This poppy was not largely noticed until the Joshuanet accepted it as a personal endeavor, which led to the creation of an affordable bathroom.

“We need to move the way we do things. People with disabilities should be able to do the same thing that everyone else can,” Joshuanet says passionately. “I’m so excited about what I know good people can achieve.”

The plans include the processing scheme of private households and ultimately the creation of a specially built center for consolidation of a variety of work of the group.

However, she knows about new problems. Even a walk around the capital, St. -John, richly dangers for many with a violation, thanks to the ubiquitous open gutter, roughly covered with runoff and hacked pavement.

“Availability is of serious concern,” says Bernard Warner, head of the country’s disability association. “To begin with, there is a lack of access to auxiliary devices to help people live more significant.”

Both the Bernard and the good people call on the legislation adopted in 2017, seeking to protect the rights of people with disabilities. The equal rights tribunal was a key part of the law but was never created.

“There is a lot of discrimination; people are indifferent or turn away from employment opportunities,” Bernard says. “And most of the poverty, the majority has no money to hire lawyers.”

Bernard lost his right leg when his motorcycle was struck by a drunk driver in 1996. Despite the long court case that managed him in favor, he never received compensation.

“After many years of flour, I now unite the best society,” he explains. “We need to change our thinking as we see people with disabilities. We leave them too long. Even now I see that multi-storey buildings do not have access to disability,” he adds.

Kelly Hedge, the director of the Center won children with special needs, agrees. Currently, 27 students between the ages of five and 18 are at her school.

“The task is that when students leave us young adults, where they go? People are still wary of hiring people with special needs and disabilities. If they do not have personal ties and cannot work with their parents, they usually just stay at home,” she says.

Victory Center is one of the schools that joined the processing scheme of good people.

“As good people get bigger and need more employees, I hope our children can move to positions, become participants of society and live more independently,” Kelly adds.

Joshuanet believes that mental health should be the main attention of the awareness of disability. Despite her largely positive outlook, she admits that the depression was struck recently when she was 30 and could still afford her home.

She continues to fight for compensation against the company, which, she said, fired unfair.

“The fight is exhausted,” she says. “But the changes will only take place when more people tell about disability and change in demand.”