“World’s first! ! Even a bedridden person with a disability can become a facilitator with the alter ego robot”: Robotics company OriHime sponsors Disability Equality Training

Extract from an advert via Jiji

August 14 2023

KAGOSHIMA – [NPO Disability Equality Training Forum]
“To make Kagoshima a city where no one is left behind-disability equality training-” September 14, 2023 (Thursday)　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

“Disability Equality Training (DET)” is a disability education program conducted through dialogue and group work with participants, with persons with disabilities acting as facilitators.
At the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, all 80,000 field cast members took DET as “diversity and inclusion training.” Currently, it is implemented in 39 countries around the world.

Some of our facilitators are unable to leave their homes or have been hospitalized for several years.
Among them, this time Junko Yamamoto, who grew up in Kagoshima City and who has an intractable disease, uses her alter-ego robot OriHime to participate in group discussions among participants as a DET facilitator.

In addition, Akiyo Ishikawa, an individual winner of the “1st SDGs Iwasa Award ~Peace Section~” will be the main facilitator, and a total of eight wheelchair users will work as DET facilitators.

Through DET, all participants discuss diversity and coexistence with “disability” as an entry point, think about it, and connect it to action to realize diversity and coexistence.