Nick Vujicic
今日の英語のお勉強。
先天性四肢障害をもつオーストラリアの牧師さん、Nick Vujicic氏について書いています。
日本では、乙武さんのツイートを巡って議論が起きていますね...。
Nick Vujicic is an Australian evangelist who was born with tetra-amelia syndrome, a disorder characterized by the absence of all four limbs.
I learned about him from these two YouTube videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=13N6gAlhAqg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrV_ZvwZRvw
He makes many speeches around the world to talk about his lives without his limbs and preach the importance to live with hope.
His disorder is congenital. I think many people would be in despair if their children were born without limbs.
Nick was also hopeless and tried to kill himself in his teens. However he regained hope and has become such a great person eventually.
I think he grew up surrounded by fine people.
I imagined that his parents always encouraged him and told him the importance of never giving up.
In Japan, there is a person like him. His name is Hirotada Ototake.
He makes many speeches to talk about his experiences and to make the society easier for physically challenged people to live.
I think it's very important to know the experiences of such people like Nick and Ototake-san.
There are many physically challenged people in our society. We should cooperate to have a better society to live in.
