On 13th August 1992 the Club launched International Left-Handers
Day, an annual event when left-handers everywhere can celebrate their
sinistrality and increase public awareness of the advantages and disadvantages
of being left-handed. This event is now celebrated worldwide, and in the U.K.
alone there were over 20 regional events to mark the day in 2001- including
left-v-right sports matches, a left-handed tea party, pubs using left-handed
corkscrews where patrons drank and played pub games with the left hand only,
and nationwide "Lefty Zones" where left-handers creativity,
adaptability and sporting prowess were celebrated, whilst right-handers were encouraged
to try out everyday left-handed objects to see just how awkward it can feel
using the wrong equipment!
These events have contributed more than anything else to the
general awareness of the difficulties and frustrations left-handers experience
in everyday life, and have successfully led to improved product design and
greater consideration of our needs by the right-handed majority - although
there is still a long way to go!!
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