1. AEGIS
International Conference
Brussels
29-30 November 2011

2. THE “ACCESSIBLE ”
MAP OF THE CITY OF DRAMA
GREECE
Paraplegics’ Association of Drama

3. Chair of Paraplegics’ Association of Drama
Katsigianni Aglaia
International Relations Consultant

4. The city of Drama
 Drama is a town and municipality in northeastern Greece
. Drama is the capital of the peripheral unit of Drama
which is part of the East Macedonia and Thrace
periphery. The town has about 52,000 population and is
the economic center of the municipality.

5. The springs of Agia Varvara

6. An aspect of the city of Drama…

7. The Paraplegics’ Association of Drama, was established in
1993 and it is based in the city of Drama. It is lodged in the
ground – floor of a building granted by the Municipality of
Drama, which is used, both, as an office and a meeting
place for the members.

8. One of the associations’ goals is the elimination of
constructural and other kind of barriers and the accessibility
of all places of public gathering and transportation.

10. Because the lack of accessibility
hurts…

11. Without
accessibility you
feel caged…

12. That’s why we fought all
these years and still keep
fighting for…

13. Free movement around the city

14. Making the city’s sidewalks
accessible…

18. Making public buildings
accessible…

27. Schools
leisure
& sports…

39. Adapted transportation in the
city & Parking Lot…

44. Considering all the above facilities for
people with disabilities living in Drama
but for tourists with disabilities
also…
we thought, why not let everybody
know about it?

45. The right opportunity came a few years
ago, in 2008, through the Greek
Ministry of Labor, when we applied for
a project for creating an “accessible”
map.

46. We started a campaign by asking all
our members, friends, citizens,
authorities & shop owners to provide
us with any kind of relevant
information they had.

47. We continued by asking the local
owners of hotels, restaurants,
etc, to make adaptations so,
their business will be accessible
to customers with physical
disability & be promoted in the
map.

48. After we gathered the information we
started an… adventure by checking
and double checking all the
information we had before we put it
on map.

49. And that’s the result…

51. The “safe to cross” ramps were
spotted with a green dot.
The “help needed” ramps were spotted
with a red dot.

53. All the information is provided in greek
and english.
The places with adapted bathroom are
indicated with green letters and the
contrary with red letters.

54. The map was distributed to several public
buildings, hotels, public transportation
stations & touristic interest spots.
The Paraplegics’ Association of Drama is
providing the map free of charge to
anyone who is interested to have it.