I met Rosa Montana at the coffee shop that runs the MyRight office in Nicaragua. Rosa acaba to attend a program group meeting. Rosa is responsible for the education-related topics in the FECONORI Paraguay organization, which meets with the nicaragüense movement of the rights of people with disabilities.
Rosa is in front of me in the month and I know the power and the calorie that irradia, is habladora and is llena de ideas. The question is how to work in FECONORI and why education is important for her.
- I have no opportunity to go to school, I answer, I have already decided that I have not been able to go to school until next year, and when I am the same respondent. With time, I was forced to resign as mayor.
The nation of Rosa nation with multiple disabilities. A Rosa ya su familia se les dijo que hija nunca seria capacaz de caminar, ni de comer otra cosa que no fueran aliquos aliquidos. Pero Rosa did not give in to all hopes. Hoy en día, su hija tiene 32 años.
Small steps have a big impact
–Lento pero seguro, fui enseñándole a kaminar ya masticar, para que pulder comer diferent types of alimentos. Poco a poco, también desarrollamos nuestro propio idioma. On one occasion, she had a signal. The hizo one and another time, has finally understood that I would like to mourn him. It's a big step forward, Rosa's account.
To be with his wife, Rosa has learned that things can happen if they have the necessary energy. It takes a lot of care and love. Initially, he thought that a school would be able to give it more than its podium, but now it is not in its own way. Para Rosa is a process that happens when it happens like a mother.
A non-professional education that is adapted to its needs, but also the love and attention that only the family can offer, says me.
An organization for knowledge and support
When Rosa becomes aware of the quarantine of volunteering that exists in society, in that she also lacks as much volunteering as the necessary necessities to support and help her husband and family, Rosa gets in touch with other parents who are also tenants children with disabilities. And together they created the organization of Los Pipitos.
-Fue when the black man comes to me he knows that he feels that he is lying. I was not able to give him the opportunity to go to school, but I can see the fruits of the air for other hens and heifers in Nicaragua, dice Rosa.
Among the most vulnerable people in society are the nines, girls and adults who have intellectual disabilities. When a person cares about the capacity for form and expresses his or her needs for it, he or she finds himself / herself in a situation of extreme dependence on his or her family. For this reason, the Pipitos work hard to improve the knowledge of the parents about the disabilities that they have, as well as their needs and rights. These are the conditions that have to offer a good attention to their children. If he is undergoing permanent training, then he has to admit that he has no change in the need for support.
A father with his child at the day center run by Los Pipitos. They play while also learning various exercises to train the child's muscles and body awareness.
- The necessities of a nineteen-year-old and a year of marriage are very different. And when he was 30 years old, he had to be able to proportion himself to another type of support, Rosa said. At some point, for example, you have to learn to address issues related to your sexuality.
A Rosa lebría gustado tener gente a su alrededor que le hubiera sido de apoyo cuando naci su hija, porque ella sabe cuáles son los temas y las emotions con los que padres tienen que luchar. For her sake, it's important for her that other families have access to what she's missing.
The Pipitos work not only to support families, but also to increase the costs and change the subliminal structures in society. He has been involved in a number of central projects in the majority of hospital staff notices so as to avoid incapacities, both during and after the party, and to increase the compensation for what is important for families who are illiterate with disabilities and that the support is available and contact with organizations like Los Pipitos from the first moments in the hospital.
People's organizations with disabilities adopt a right perspective.
Rosa cree que hay que pasar por tres phases par logger las mejoras que el desea ver.
- In the first phase, the step is to increase the knowledge and empathy of the people. Entries attempt to establish acceptance in order for people with disabilities to be included in different contexts, such as school. The first phase is to recognize that our rights are the same as the rights of other people, says Rosa.
Según Rosa, the mayor of Nicaragua's people, in general, will meet in the first phase. The governing body and the authorities have reached the second stage, while the organizations of persons with disabilities are located in the third stage.
- People with disabilities are now conscious of their rights and use a right-wing perspective on everything they do, says Rosa.
An education based on the needs of the favored children and all students
Rosa's question in the current news is the ability to find a school that accepts her marriage, if she has no children.
If yes, respond, possible series, per the quality of the school todavia not series the ideal.
The changes that Rosa is working on are not only to make it easier for the children with disabilities to have the ability to go to school, but also with the quality of education. Today, FECONORI works with the Ministry of Education and monitors the situation of the schooling of the disabled. In the great Middle Ages, there was training in educational methods and also in convening masters that the nines with disabilities also could learn things and develop.
Rosa explains that she was also a professor of English and that there were various alumni with learning difficulties.
- My dear students, what other professors consider is that I can help them. Thank you to me, I learned that much of what is possible in a principle can be read if it is possible for the person responsible for teaching to be compromised with the tariff, be creative and try different teaching methods to identify who is adapting better to the person in question, explains Rosa.
If you need knowledge and statistics
In fact, it is difficult to tell the results of the initiatives, whether there is a shortage of knowledge and statistics about the situation on the ground and, also, about the needs that exist. For this reason, FECONORI is currently inspecting the school situation of children with disabilities in the eastern part of Nicaragua. An inquiry of this type will allow more easy form of determination of those who change their lives by what they say and, in the meanwhile, say that the situation is better and better.
FECONORI has been involved in the case until the teacher training includes courses on teaching children and girls with special needs. The year that he graduated from the first masters he took these courses. FECONORI plans to monitor the manner in which these masters have acquired influence in teaching.
-When the masters know how to teach the children with special needs, the quality of teaching is better for all students, says Rosa.