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Less than a month for adults with Down syndrome learn what it means to become independent.

This is the objective pursued by the project I want to live my own life, which will launch in October Asido Cartagena for adults with celiac disease learn to fend for themselves.

The sheltered housing project this morning as Mayor Pilar Barreiro, President of Asido Cartagena, Santiago Lopez, vice president of the Fundación Repsol, César Gallo, ONCE Territorial delegate, Juan Carlos Morejon and one of the future occupants floor, Irina Sanchez.

The apartment, located on Calle La Paz, host all kinds of workshops for some 50 members of the association to learn to perform various chores. Progressively stays occupants will lengthen to include overnight stays, explained the president of Asido.

Among the workshops that impart knowledge professionals include environmental Asido, home organization, self-care and inclusion in the community with the aim of providing tools to develop a life as independently as possible.

We are thrilled to all parents of Asido like them, Santiago Lopez stressed.

And is that another purpose of this project is that people with Down syndrome can become independent in the future and decide whether to move in with your partner, with friends or with your family.

Currently housing will accommodate 50 people with Down syndrome or intellectual disability that will rotate.

Will be over 18.

Or cuparán floor Asido accompanied by professionals who will give all necessary support. Learn to live in community and take part in what is happening around him, has affected Asido president.

Also, one of the beneficiaries of this project, Irina Sanchez, has expressed the desire of people with Down syndrome to live with friends or with your partner and to lead an ordinary life.

The property has ceded the Rose Foundation and its renovation and equipment was carried out thanks to the cooperation of the City of Cartagena, the ONCE Foundation, Repsol Foundation and the School of Marine.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena