CAI Piña Palmera AC
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Mission Statement
Piña Palmera is a legally constituted civil association, without any political or religious interest. Since 1984 Piña Palmera works to promote the exercise of the rights of disabled people in the communities of the south coast of Oaxaca. Our mission is to help people with disabilities and their families, who live in a rural context of extreme poverty, improve their quality of life through rehabilitation, prevention, information, communication, training and inclusion. The aim is to empower people with disibilities to become leaders, working with their families, promoting active and creative participation of the community in inclusion. The theme of the philosophy and practice of Piña Palmera is structured around a proposal based on the World Health Organization called Community Based Rehabilitation program.
About This Cause
Piña Palmera Centro de Atención Infantil, A.C. is a non-governmental organization (NGO), legally constituted without any political or religious interest, which has tackled since more than 30 years the issue disability of persons of any age from rural communities, its majority are indigenous people. We are working in the southern coast of Oaxaca with rehabilitation processes, social inclusion, information, education and awareness workshops. Our activities are addressed to people with disabilities (physical, intellectual or conductive, psycho-social, epilepsy, Down syndrome, hearing and visual impairments among others) of all ages and their families, without bearing in mind the grade of disability, ability to pay and/or ethnicity. We consider that the work with disabled persons is not a matter of kindness, but of bringing their human rights to bear. The extreme poverty or various social problems complement the challenge of Piña. The central axis of our work is respect towards differences and the formation of an integrative society. The center’s efforts focus on changing the way local people regard people with disabilities, by promoting change of attitude and accessibility within the families, schools and local communities. These programs teach people to use adaptive equipment and therapeutic techniques as well as to take care of people with disabilities. Thus children and adults with disabilities become more included into everyday life, both in their own family as well as in their community. We are a Civil Association, legally constituted, with the right to receive deductible donations. Since our foundation, more than 5000 children and adults with different disabilities have participated in our programs. Currently 750 people participate in our programs. (20% children, 35% youths, 10% elderly people…). Piña Palmera’s Mission: Our mission is to contribute to the improvement of the quality of life for people with disabilities and their families in the southern coast of Oaxaca. Piña Palmera’s Objectives: to help people with disabilities to accept themselves and to integrate themselves into their families, communities and daily lives to assist disabled people to be as independent as possible to promote the development of the abilities of people with disabilities to the fullest to generate social acceptance in the region towards people with disabilities. We are dreaming of a society, where EVERYBODY recognizes and respects differences.