3(e). Plan or take part in an awareness activity

Note. PLAN AND PARTICIPATE ARE TWO DIFFERENT JOBS AND THE BADGE ACCEPTS EITHER. Planning an activity that helps others understand what living with a visible or invisible disability is like means designing it, finding an audience and running it, which is a project on the scale of requirement 5(a). Participating in one that already exists means finding out what your school, unit, council or a local agency is already running and joining it, which may be an afternoon. Both end the same way, with a discussion of what you learned with your counselor. If you choose to plan one, treat simulation exercises carefully: a blindfold for twenty minutes teaches something about disorientation and nothing about living with blindness, and the better activities are built with the people they are about rather than for them.