Deliveryman doesn't let disability hold him back
This deliveryman is busting disability stereotypes
transporting meals on adapted wheels
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
After a motorcycle accident put him in a wheelchair
Juliano Daurelio raised $2,200
to adapt his motorbike
so he could continue working
(SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) DELIVERYMAN, JULIANO DAURELIO, SAYING:
"The job of a deliveryman is not made for us wheelchair users. I am in this situation today, working as a deliveryman, overcoming obstacles, overcoming challenges. Because us wheelchair users are not useless, we are not disabled. We are able to do things, we are capable of everything. We just have to run after it."
He’s become a local celebrity
as he brings food to hungry customers
(SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) DELIVERYMAN, JULIANO DAURELIO, SAYING:
"There's nothing to complain about with life. Life is very good. Everything bad that has happened at one time comes back with good things for you. Nothing in life is by chance. I am here today, I suffered at the beginning with my disability, I am now having good things happen. I am not getting rich but nowadays my wife says on Friday, 'let's have a pizza'. I say, 'let's have a pizza'."
