<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Lucida Sans Unicode" LANG="0">Hello you all,<BR>
Ibermutuar, a workers' collective composed of professionals that tend to safety on the job, accidents at work, etc., has published a guide for physically handicapped pilgrims. <BR>
The guide contains information about accessibility and other matters of interest to pilgrims with physical handicaps, including albergues and restaurants with special facilities.<BR>
The guide covers the French Way and focuses on those sections that may pose particular difficulties.<BR>
It also contains suggested stages of 8 kilometers per day, with information about allergies and other resting or sleeping facilities at the end thereof.<BR>
Three pilgrims that traversed the French Way on wheelchairs participated directly in the preparation of the guide which, at present, is only available in Spanish, but which is being translated into French and German.<BR>
The guide was sponsored, and funded, by the Caixa Galicia (a bank), the ONCE foundation ("once" means eleven in Spanish and it is a foundation for the assitance of those who are blind), and the Fenosa Union.<BR>
If you want to learn more about it, or obviation a copy, you may send a message to<BR>
juancarlossanchezaibermutuamur.es <BR>
(The Ibermutuamur collective also has its own webpage.)<BR>
Warm regards,<BR>
Rosina</FONT></HTML>