Hello
dears!
Today our
subject is a social issue: I’m going to talk about disabled people in Chile
First of
all, I must to say that the persons in situation of disability in Chile are
more than 2 millions. Of those who are in age of working, 90 % doesn’t have a
remunerated work, and of those who work only 1 % does it with a contract. The
great majority we have neither access to treatment nor integral rehabilitation.
From the poorest people, the disability is five times major that among the rich
ones. Only 50 % of disabled people in Chile complete the basic education.
The Chilean
State does not fulfill his duty to take charge of disabled people’s rights; in spite
of having ratified the NU Convention on the Human Rights of the Persons with
Disability, and promulgated a Law of Equality of Opportunities and Social
Incorporation. On the contrary, the public policies are insufficient, and when
they exist they are paternalists, so that in general the response to our needs
and requirements remains freed to an "welfare private industry”, that has
constituted a market where the persons pass to be mere objects of the foreign
charity, remaining relegated as goods of managerial initiatives.
This approach
to disability is coherent with the neoliberal model imposed in the country,
which in addition, on having centred fundamentally on the competition, produces
our economic and political, social and cultural segregation, condemning us to
be always losers in the dispute for speeches and resources.
These welfare
campaigns have a pernicious effect on having reproduced a common sense that makes
us see as sick, unable to take autonomous decisions, of developing independently,
tied to the suffering and that do not reach to the development of the society,
helping to perpetuate a public pity attitudes.
We are subjects
of rights, not objects of the foreign charity. We demand the full possession
and exercise of our rights. We demand our self-representation, and we don’t
need of other one that directs our actions
or acts for us. We are not arranged to continuing depending on the good will of
other persons; we claim the capture of conscience on our rights and the duty
that the State and the Society have to guarantee them.
