Inclusion and claiming the rights of people with disabilities

The statement “nothing about us without us” is the essential starting point of the project “PODER: program for occupational inclusion, the defense of the rights to education and the claim of the rights of people with disabilities”.

The project action, lasting 36 months, aims to strengthen and support tangible changes such as to allow people with disabilities in the target areas (Colon, Zaragoza, Santo Tomás and Santiago Texacuangos) to promote, as active subjects recognized as competent, processes of social and educational inclusion.

The proposed action develops around the idea of the centrality of people with disabilities and their organizations, whose strengthening in terms of awareness and skills (individual and collective empowerment) is considered as a fundamental precondition for achieving the established objective.

The project has three main components:

• strengthening advocacy capacities of people with disabilities and their organisations
• support for the completion of educational and professional training courses for people with disabilities
• reduction of physical access barriers to schools and other buildings of public interest by means of light infrastructural upgrading works.