{"id":9501,"date":"2012-07-07T07:54:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T05:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=9501"},"modified":"2012-07-06T22:00:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T20:00:48","slug":"give-me-your-hand-act-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2012\/07\/07\/give-me-your-hand-act-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Give me your hand! ACT more!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTiene un dia? Involucrate! \u201c is a project that AEGEE-Las Palmas started few months ago. The antenna from the Canary Islands<\/em>\u00a0decided to set one day a month when they would be collaborating with one local association, in<\/em>\u00a0order to raise awareness of our members about different realities.<\/em><\/p>\n

It was a sunny day in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. A beautiful day, which started as usual for
\nAEGEE members, but for few other youngsters, this day was everything but usual.<\/p>\n

Involving the invincible\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who are they? Well, they are the ones, we often forget ! The ones, we do not want to see\u00a0because it disturbs us: disabled children.\u00a0For one day, AEGEE-Las Palmas took the challenge to collaborate with a local association\u00a0called APAELP (Association of families of people with disabilities), and to include those\u00a0youngsters in normal activities that we do. It was a success!<\/p>\n

For Gulay, European Voluntary Service volunteer in AEGEE-Las Palmas, being with them for a whole day was quite a\u00a0new experience that pushed her to realise that in their daily lives, those youngsters face many
\nchallenges just to be able to get the same rights and opportunities that others are enjoying. This
\nsituation is the result of a lack of understanding of disability problems in our society in general
\nand a lack of opportunities for disabled children to speak about things that matter to
\nthem.<\/p>\n

Through this day and these activities, AEGEE-Las Palmas wished to collaborate for a better
\nparticipation and integration of young people with disabilities in the society.<\/p>\n

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Packed program<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the morning, AEGEE-Las Palmas\u2019 members were ready, waiting impatiently for their arrival.
\nWarmth and happiness that those youngsters were sharing with the AEGEE representatives were striking. Actually,\u00a0during the exchange day, what was the most present, was the body language, hugs,
\nsmiles, gestures: they do not talk a lot, but one can feel that their souls were smiling.
\nDuring the day, bridges were crossed with them through games and creative activities. We played around six games with everything from\u00a0ice breaking games, to water-polo, from biking to \u00a0dancing.<\/p>\n

Lesson for life<\/strong><\/p>\n

Somehow, they made AEGEE-Las-Palmas members understand that they want to have more control over their lives \u2013 to\u00a0be able to choose what to do, how to do it and just like all children, disabled children have the\u00a0right to have their views, wishes and feelings. However, in practice\u00a0organisers of this association explained that they are fighting for their children\u2019s voice\u00a0to be one more youth voice, and not to be ignored. They eager to have their needs to be fulfilled. \u00a0All children can\u00a0communicate. Some do not use speech but can express their wishes, hopes and feelings\u00a0through other means. They need support to express their wishes and feelings. They should\u00a0be empowered to have a stronger voice in order to get the same opportunities, to understand and to\u00a0be understood.<\/p>\n

This activity was a first step in this direction, since AEGEE-Las Palmas is one of the few
\nassociations which actually made this \u201cfirst step\u201d and wanted to make activities with them (it is
\nusually the other way round). This first day was a pleasant surprise, and made AEGEE-Las-Palmas’ members realise how important it\u00a0is to continue collaborating with associations of minorities, because they have a lot to give, and a\u00a0lot to say!<\/p>\n

Written by\u00a0Lucille Rieux, AEGEE-Toulousse<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cTiene un dia? Involucrate! \u201c is a project that AEGEE-Las Palmas started few months ago. The antenna from the Canary Islands\u00a0decided to set one day a month when they would be collaborating with one local association, in\u00a0order to raise awareness of our members about different realities. It was a sunny day in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. A beautiful day,… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":9503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[388,5],"tags":[1936,549,480,550],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9501"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9642,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501\/revisions\/9642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}