By ELIZABETH LOLARGA
Photos courtesy of the artists
ALL it takes is a heartfelt push, and the Apolinario Mabini Wheelchair Parade will roll along on July 20, a spectacle on The Mind Museum’s canopied section to mark Rehabilitation Month.
Its organizers, writer Gilda Cordero-Fernando and Dr. Joven Cuanang, St. Luke’s Medical Center senior vice president for medical affairs and chief medical officer, hope for a sunny afternoon for the event at J.Y. Campos Park, 3rd Ave., Global City of Taguig. It is timed on the birth week of the Sublime Paralytic, the intellectual Katipunero who became the Philippine Republic’s first prime minister.
The idea came about when four men carried octogenarian Cordero-Fernando, who finds it hard managing stairs, while she was seated on her wheelchair from the ground floor of the University of the Philippines’ Palma Hall to the Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero Theater.