AMERICA/URUGUAY – State schools for children with disabilities

Tuesday, 28 July 2015

URUGUAY

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On May 6 the Beatification of the first Bishop of Montevideo, born on a boat of emigrants

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The Bishops reflect on the life of the communities and urge them to resume participation in Sunday Mass

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After the interruption due to the pandemic, thousands of pilgrims return to the Shrine of the "Our Lady of the Thirty-Three"

Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) – Following various appeals from civil society the Uruguayan Council For Basic Primary Education (CEIP) announced that the next budget will include a project for the creation of 60 state schools to include children with disabilities. The country already has 18 schools of this type and the aim is to have 78 such institutes by 2020. The project is based on the Mandela School Programme, a project which has functioned since 2013 with the goal to make the integration of persons with a disability a daily reality. According to data from the Fundación ProIntegra, which promotes the inclusion of disabled children, a 2011 censure in Uruguay revealed that of 50,000 children and adolescents with disabilities, only 12 per-cent regularly attended a centre of education. (AP) (28/7/2015 Agenzia Fides)