Independent Living Institute

By Jean-Louis Sarbib,
Senior Vice President and Head of the Human Development Network, The World Bank

Source: WORLD BANK INSTITUTE, Web Magazine

Disabled people constitute one of the largest and poorest groups among people living in poverty. Plausible estimates of the number of disabled people in developing countries range upward from 400 million, and many more people are involved with disability as family members of disabled people.

Andrea Avaria Saavedra (andreaavaria@gmail.com), Magíster Antropología y Desarrollo, Universidad de Chile

Introducción

I am Milica Mima Ruzicic, born in 1978 with cerebral palsy in Novi Sad, a capital city of the north Serbian province Vojvodina, lived in a village Zabalj with my family till my 18. Then I entered high school of philology in Sremski Karlovci, about 40 km far from my village. My parents paid my old land lady for the assistance in my daily activities and pushing me to school. It lasted for 4 years. I did not know anything about the independent life philosophy, but I strongly felt what meant independent decision making about your own activities and time. In one moment it became very hard when she started to influence on

The EUSTAT Study (Empowering Users Through Assistive Technology), is a European project carried out within the EU/Telematics Programme with the aim of developing educational material specifically addressed towards end-users of Assistive Technology (people with disabilities and their families).

The main product of the Study consists of the following two books, that have been published in six languages (English, Danish, Dutch, French, Italian and Portuguese) and are now available from our Institute:
SIVA
via Capecelatro 66
I-20148 Milano
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fax +39 02 40 09 01 57, e-mail BOOKS@SIVA.IT.

I fredags (28 september 2007) presenterade Assistansutredningen (LSS-Kommittén) sitt delbetänkande ”Kostnader för personlig assistans. Skärpta regler för utbetalning, användning och återbetalning av assistansersättning”. Delbetänkandet är ett snabbt svar på ett tilläggsdirektiv som kom från regeringen så sent som den 5 juli i år. Med en sommarsemester däremellan inser man att det har gått väldigt fort och vill man vara lite elak kan man säga att det märks i utredningen, som verkar vara mer intresserad av att visa på handlingskraft mot det påstådda fusket och presentera medialt lättsålda förslag, utan att tränga ner i en mer konstruktiv analys av problematiken.

Stefan Pelc har varit egen arbetsgivare för sina assistenter sedan 1992, alltså redan innan LSS. Han har haft sin assistans med förhöjt belopp, vilket gör att han redan har erfarenhet av en högre grad av redovisningsskyldighet än de som fått ersättning med schablonbelopp.

Vad tycker du om utredningens förslag?

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Noi, quattrocento partecipanti da molti paesi europei riuniti al 1° Congresso Europeo sulla Vita Indipendente, tenutosi a Tenerife nell’ambito del 2003 Anno Europeo delle Persone Disabili, sollecitiamo i Governi delle Isole Canarie e della Spagna a farsi promotori degli interventi tesi a far sì che di questa Dichiarazione venga tenuto conto nella politica dell’Unione Europea, e in particolare nei lavori per l’imminente Direttiva sulla Non Discriminazione nel campo della Disabilità e nel Piano di Azione Europeo sulla Disabilità.

I principi sulla vita indipendente.

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Nosotros, los 400 participantes de varios países europeos reunidos en el primer Congreso Europeo sobre Vida Independiente, celebrado en Tenerife en el marco de 2003 como Año Europeo de la Discapacidad, requerimos que el Gobierno Insular de Tenerife, el Gobierno de Canarias y el Gobierno de España, tomen las riendas y aboguen por la aplicación de este Manifiesto en la política de la Unión Europea, específicamente en el trabajo sobre la Directiva de No Discriminación hacia las Personas con Discapacidad y el Plan de Acción Europeo de Personas con Discapacidad.

Principios de Vida Independiente

Diane Driedger and April D'Aubin, residents of Winnipeg, are both involved at the board and committee levels with the Winnipeg Independent Living Resource centre. Diane was Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors and Chairperson of the Program Sub-Committee in addition to her involvement with the Mennonite Central Committee-s founding committee of the Winnipeg ILRC. April is currently a Board member and serves as Chairperson of the Program Sub-Committee. She is also employed as Research Analyst with COPOH.