The disabled people in Chile

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.