Water wheelchair in Dubai – level 1

22-08-2014 15:00

Dubai has special wheelchairs. You can use these wheelchairs for free. There are twenty of them in Dubai.

And what is so special about these wheelchairs? They let disabled people enjoy the sea or a swimming pool. The wheelchairs float in the water.

Dubai wants to be friendlier to disabled people. It plans to have more and more of these wheelchairs.

Difficult words: wheelchair (chair on wheels for a disabled person), disabled (disabled person cannot move well), float (move slowly in the water).

You can read the original story and watch the video in the Level 3 section.

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