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Ultimately, this harsh experience was the driving force to create a website in order to help people with physical disabilities to work as professional models. Ampworld also intends to encourage people with disabilities, tries to lift their hopes and give them the optimism to help overcome the prejudices and bias that exist against all physically disabled people in the world today.Where exactly do the bad vibes originate?Since our website has been operating, only two negative articles have appeared in the press and both of these were in Romania. It seems that discrimination against people with disabilities in eastern European countries is still very prominent.Newspapers tell their readers that amputees should not appear in public and we know from our own experience that people with disabilities feel very ashamed to take part in any activities that would be likely to attract attention in any way.
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What happens to make it all better?Inevitably, we cannot change all these long-standing stereotypes, intolerances and inequality issues in many countries simply overnight. However, we strongly believe that every little success helps to lift the optimism of those concerned and conveys the important message that no one on this planet should be coerced into a feeling of inferiority simply because of a physical disability.
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In many ways, this is much like being homosexual. You can't tell where it comes from, and you don't choose to be the way you are. It comes to you early in your life, you can't escape it, provided you even want to, and it's there till the very last moment of your life on Earth.
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As this community of people with disabilities, amputees in particular, is rather limited in number, and the community of people who are attracted to them is equally small, and probably even smaller, a network needed to be developed, in a serious and professional manner, which is one of the objectives of ampworld.de
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