Disability-inclusive agenda should be adopted by everyone

The Great Depression in the US lasted from 1929 to 1939. Franklin Roosevelt, who was president from 1933 to 1945, nursed the country through the dark days by initiating a rebuilding programme of an economy devastated by the Second World War.

He did this while bound to a wheelchair, having suffered from poliomyelitis in his earlier life. He did not let this physical disability get in his way to achieving greatness and helping his country go through a period that would have consumed a lesser person.