Santander (EFE).- A mask and something as daily as breakfast have brought together journalists from various media at the Las Carolinas hotel-school in Santander.
The objective? Experience firsthand the difficulties of people with visual disabilities even to have a coffee.
With the tables set and ready for breakfast, members of the ONCE in Cantabria, which has organized this blind breakfast “in the house” of the Cantabria Hospitality Business Association, have handed out masks to each of the journalists to then guide them and accompany them to the room where the tables were.
For a while and with the mask on, they have discovered the difficulties faced by blind or visually impaired people to serve themselves juice in a glass, dip a sobao in coffee, drink coffee or add sugar in the cafe.
Tools to be autonomous
“A blind person does not want others to be their employees, what that person wants is to be provided with the tools so that they can be autonomous,” members of ONCE have assured.
Guided by the voice, feeling and touching everything that was on the table, the journalists have begun by sitting in the chairs where they have arrived accompanied so as not to collide with other people or with other tables.
Once seated, they began their experience with “totally different” sensations, thinking that they were in a much larger space and at round tables instead of square ones.
The one who did not want to miss it either was the president of the Cantabrian hoteliers, Francisco Bedia, who joined the journalists and had breakfast “blindly”.
“People who have vision problems can be helped with very little, just by explaining and telling them where things are; I think it is enough to help our diners in the catering services”, highlighted Bedia.
In addition, ONCE has delivered to the president of the Cantabrian hoteliers the coupon for this Thursday that the entity dedicates to hoteliers in Spain.