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Jane Corscadden

Co Armagh artist working to make travel easier for people with disabilities thanks to survival kit

A Co Armagh neurodiverse artist is leading an international project aimed at making travel easier for people with disabilities.

Julie McGowan from Craigavon designed the Urban Survival Kits (USK) project, working with 40 disabled adults from Northern Ireland, Germany, Poland, Turkey and Croatia to create tools that will make their journeys more accessible.

After a functional neurological disorder episode after surgery in 2020 left her partially paralysed, she had to learn to walk again. When she tarted to travel again, she saw the huge hurdles facing disabled people.

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