The canon of the Cathedral of Viseu and director of Home / Saint Anthony’s School will be “the voice of citizens with disabilities in the county”, told reporters the president of the municipality, Almeida Henriques.
According to the mayor, the new provider “will have the task of defending these people’s rights” with regard to accessibility and inclusion issues, advising the Executive on the adoption of best practices.
” It will be an interlocutor between society, in the social field and in the field of disabled citizens, and the very authority. This well demonstrates the importance we place on this issue, “he said.
The provider will have a space in the old building Prefecture of Viseu where you can receive people.
Almeida Henriques said the executive devoted much of the meeting to persons with disabilities as part of a priority that has established and going “from the supporting institutions” to the way it was introduced “in the regulation of support to sport the issue of inclusive sport.”
In this context, and taking advantage of the celebration of International Day of Persons with Disabilities, during the meeting approved a set of support to social institutions of the municipality.
The Social Democrat mayor exemplified to finance the acquisition of a platform lift for the Equestrian and Psychomotor Association of Viseu, in order to permit accessibility users with reduced mobility to practice riding for therapeutic purposes.
According to Lusa , support was also approved for Social Works of the House, the Cerebral Palsy Association of Viseu and the Portuguese Association for Development Disturbances and Autism.
Almeida Henriques said that “this effort the city of Viseu has been doing under the disabled person’s integration should be matched “by the central State.
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