SOI Foundation launched a mediation service with professionals that support people with disabilities to enjoy their leisure individually.
Mediation allows access to activities with other non-disabled people who otherwise would not enjoy.
SOI Foundation promotes activities and programs for people with and without disabilities can share your leisure.
People with intellectual disabilities have difficulty accessing leisure activities for the rest of Cartagena are common.
So SOI Foundation puts a professional service that support them individually to join them.
The so-called mediation program is possible thanks to the collaboration of Repsol contributing over 6000 euros and it will be possible to have specialized technicians for this course.
The program is open to all people with intellectual disabilities in the county, whether or not associations that promote SOI.
Each participant is responsible for the costs of activities to choose like any other, but will this mediation by using SOI Repsol Foundation.
So they will get better self-esteem and personal autonomy to do what they like and everyone will benefit from a more inclusive society.
The goal is for people with and without disabilities can enjoy their leisure time together in the usual and not so distinct locations.
That, mediation offers the support that people with intellectual disabilities may need at the time to enroll in a sport, a course of guitar, or any other leisure activities to the public.
The inclusion of people in society is pursued also in the field of entertainment.
For that, the professional supports disabled person but also acts on the environment to make it inclusive.
The SOI Foundation has been created by the non-profit associations of families of people with intellectual disabilities and Down syndrome ASTUS and ASID Cartagena, but not limited to its members, but is open to the entire community of the Shire.
The key to inclusive leisure is that people themselves are those who choose what they want to do and the activities whenever possible be made in normal environments and with the rest of the population.
Source: FEAPS Región de Murcia