Teacher connection: Lack of accessibility

Sociology’s course second floor

One of the environmental problems that we can notice around Benfica’s Campus (UFC) is the lack of accessibility of wheelchair users into some buildings, mostly at “Centro de Humanidades” area 3 (where Sociology and Philosophy courses happen). Just at the entrance of Sociology and Philosophy courses we can see that they don’t have any elevator or ramps, turning the access to the classes and the “Luiz de Gonzaga” auditorium a hard work. Paradoxically, we can see on the photos of “Luiz de Gonzaga” auditorium entrance that it has a wheelchair access, what is much strange, because if wheelchair users don’t have an easy way access to the second level of the building where the auditorium is located why they put a ramp there and not also in the entrances? Another problem that we can perceive is the corridors’ width inside the Sociology’s course building. They are so thin that if a wheelchair user is transiting along them there shouldn’t have enough space to other people walk along. The coordination and the departments of these courses have to find a solution to these problems because they cause a series of troubles to UFC’s students, professors and so on.