Recently I have told you about Israel, as a country in which people with disabilities can feel as comfortable as possible, because the cities, institutions and infrastructure are adapted for them.

Moreover, Israeli society is very tolerant to people with disabilities. Furthermore, Israel is constantly developing special computer programs that are designed to make life easier for people with physical problems. Israeli developers have invented gadgets for more widespread use.

So recently, two Israeli companies have won a grant from Google, with innovations specifically designed for people with disabilities. Their developments are intended to increase the availability of common things for people with disabilities.

The first development Makeathon-in-a-box is a gadget that will allow people with disabilities to operate a smartphone using head movements. Well, if you have a smartphone, the whole world is actually open and available. This innovation has received two grants – of $ 700 thousand and $ 1 million. “Makeathon-in-a-box” is a pattern for the group, which connects inventors and people with disabilities, so that they work together to find the innovation to achieve greater availability.

The second program that has received a grant from Google is the keyboard which is operated by eye movement. For its implementation the grant of $ 400 thousand is allocated. It is designed for people with limited mobility, which can not even use their voice to communicate. It just seems that such people are few, in fact, there are millions of them: in our country they are not talked about, and in Israel they are trying to make lives of the disabled more comfortable. Modern technologies particularly allow doing it. We must understand that for people with disabilities a smartphone is not just a phone with a notebook, but also a window into the world and is often almost the only means of communication.

This innovation is wonderful, but if a smartphone is available to everyone in Israel today, we have to get into debt to afford to buy it in Ukraine. If in Israel a mom with a baby is free to drive to the beach, go to the free playground, get down with a wheelchair user to the water, even in Kyiv to take a ride along the main streets in a wheelchair is a feat. I am not even talking about ordinary ramps, which are built only in modern buildings. Of course, every subway has two granite paths for downcoming of the disabled. But have you ever tried at least to put a wheelchair on it?