wheelchair campaign

Our mayor may not be the best at implementing projects, constructing new centers in the city, or at getting things moving under piles of paperwork, but he is great at giving things away. His big campaign during elections was to give out 6,000 pairs of school shoes to elementary school youth during his term. He has given out around 2,000 but people are getting anxious to see the rest of those shoes (side note: these little shoes cost only a few dollars and the age he is given them will outgrow them in probably one year).
The new campaign is to give out wheel chairs, so far they have constructed and given out 30 chairs. Each wheel chair is a plastic chair with arm rests nailed into 2 sets of wheels. At least this campaign is more meaningful and you really are changing someone’s life by giving them a wheel chair, creating self mobilization (to a small degree at least, many of the roads and buildings here are not handicap friendly).
Now, although the idea of having a ceremony to give out the wheelchairs is a great idea, the way the city government went about this seems all wrong. If you are going to give out 30 wheel chairs, where should you choose to have the ceremony? My logic would be the ceremony should happen in an open space, a space that is, well, handicap friendly… maybe in the central park or in front of city hall.
As I was sitting in the office on the second floor of city hall working on our recycling project, I hear lots of commotion in the lobby. I go out into the lobby to see what´s going on, and it turns out today is the day of the big ceremony. Right here on the second story of the city hall… which of course has no elevator. Therefore, they then had to gather up some of the men in the offices to go and carry each person up the stairs. After the ceremony, the line formed again and each person had to be carried down the stairs in their new wheelchair. What better way to promote this new ¨self-mobility¨ then to hold the ceremony in a place where the participants cant get to on their own. (sarcasm of course. Although, I think only us volunteers saw anything wrong with this whole picture.)