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That's valid. Do you have any suggestions on how to make something like this more PwD friendly and feel more accessible? Part of the appeal to me is that not ever task needs to be a trades job or something highly skilled. I just read an article where an organisation (a hospital) "paid" time bankers in hours of language lessons and skilled job training for the members to help PwD and elderly community members. It's just another way to get more people volunteering in communities and fostering that connectedness but I absolutely want to keep from having PwD feel excluded from yet another corner of society.
I don't think PwD generally fit into skills trade or labour-oriented community organising structures. I don't think that means that those things shouldn't happen, I just think it is important for part of the conversation to be about the limitations of those types of organising structures and not just their merits (and they do have many merits!).
Thank you for bringing it up!