While the private sector raises funds to help children with disability, the province is drawing out the education assistant strike.

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TAIT: People living with disability receive mixed message from province

An anecdote sums up and illustrates how there is still a long way to go. Six years ago, Óscar Seoane (Bilbao, 56 years old) went to a town hall to present the job insertion programmes of the Basque Country Down Syndrome Foundation. When he introduced himself to the mayor, he explained the reason for his visit, and the politician, surprised, asked him “if these people could work”. “I simply replied that there were people with Down syndrome in the…

Una anécdota resume e ilustra la forma en que aún queda un largo camino por recorrer. Óscar Seoane (Bilbao, 56 años) acudió hace seis años a un ayuntamiento para dar a conocer los programas de inserción laboral de la Fundación Síndrome de Down del País Vasco. Cuando se presentó ante el alcalde, le explicó el motivo de su visita, y el político, sorprendido, le preguntó “si estas personas podían trabajar”. “Simplemente le contesté que en la fundac…

Óscar Seoane: “Debemos eliminar los estigmas sociales hacia las personas con síndrome de Down”

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Oscar Seoane: “We must eliminate social stigmas towards people with Down syndrome”

ShareThe larger society and families of People Living With Disability (PWD) have been urged to eliminate all forms of barriers, discrimination and stigma against the group as they have the right to self-expression like other members of society. Speaking at the Abia State Disability Day celebration on, ‘Amplifying the Leadership of Persons with Disabilities for... The post Stop Discrimination, Stigma Against People Living With Disability appeared…

TAIT: People living with disability receive mixed message from province

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