The metropolitan region’s public transport partners recently launched a new program for people with functional limitations that is receiving great attention.
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In fact, the success rate among participants is 91%.
This initiative aims to develop the autonomy of participants so that they can travel alone on the public transport network.
So far, 420 people have completed the training. The goal is to train at least 2,000 by 2025.
Our journalist Anne-Sophie Jobin accompanied Ludovic Lamarche-Cadieux, one of the program’s beneficiaries, on an excursion.
“I feel free, I feel autonomous. I’m proud of myself,” he said.
Thanks to the program, he can now go to school, work and complete his internship independently.
“When Ludovic came home for the first time and completed a completely autonomous journey, I can’t tell you the stars he had in his eyes,” says his mother and initiator of the program, Julie Cadieux.
“It allows him to be a full citizen, to behave like everyone else, to move like everyone else, and it gives him confidence in his abilities,” she adds.
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