Argentina: opportunities for children with disabilities
When Gonzalo Motta competed with Volkswagen, he was one of the first interns with intellectual disabilities in an industrial company in Córdoba in Argentine. "My father worked in the work," says the 38-year-old, who has down syndrome.
At that time there was a program that offered children from employed entry opportunities. "But I could never have imagined," said Gonzalo's father, "that Gonzalo could work with such a demanding training in a company." Gonzalo finally became a colleague of his father - and still works there today. His parents, who promoted his strengths right from the start and also the Apadim project, which is supported by Terre des Hommes together with the Volkswagen staff foundation.
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Apadim has been working for many years to give people with disabilities access to their rights. This is urgently necessary in Argentina. 86 percent of people with disabled people are unemployed there. In Germany it is twelve percent. Apadim's mission statement: A person has no disabilities, but is hindered. Therefore, Apadim has developed an integrative curriculum in cooperation with the Ministry of Education. It enables children with disabilities to go to regular schools or to take a state -recognized conclusion at special schools.
Apadim accompanies you. For example, APADIM employees support 27 children with disabilities in everyday school life at a regular school. At the same time, 120 young people with disabilities at APADIM can train, for example in bakery, in printing or handicrafts. Gonzalo completed a printer training at Apadim and thus got the necessary tools and self -confidence in order to later exist at VW.
Opportunities for children with disabilities
In addition to vocational training, Apadim strengthens the young people in the project in knowing their rights and standing up for them. Therefore, workshops on citizens' and employee rights are part of the three-year training program. Apadim has the
goal that inclusion becomes a matter of course and that all children can live with dignity, regardless of physical peculiarities. Gonzalo is an example of the successful work of Apadim. After work, he goes swimming or plays theater in a theater group that consists of actors with and without disabilities. And his fiancee Trini, with whom he has been with for many years, would like to get married soon.
