Rogério Bacalhau, president of the Chamber of Faro, warned today of the «screaming lack of residential homes» for people with physical and mental disabilities, at the opening of the International Congress of People with Disabilities, which is taking place, until tomorrow, in the Grand Auditorium of the University of Algarve.
«The only real adapted residential home in the Algarve is that of APPC Faro, which responds to only 20 citizens. And that is meager given the needs of the municipality and the region», said Rogério Bacalhau.
The presence of the Secretary of State for the Inclusion of People with Disabilities was expected at the ceremony, but Ana Sofia Antunes did not attend due to personal reasons.
Even so, the Farense mayor did not fail to highlight the lack of responses in the region, even making "a clamor for the rights of this population that agonizes in their physical and mental circumstances, in conditions so often deplorable."
For the mayor, «a community, no matter how much it grows and modernizes itself, will never be truly
developed while it does not know how to respond to the specific needs of those who suffer in the
helplessness. And the need for more homes for people with disabilities in the Algarve is evident».
sentenced.
The opening session counted, in addition to Rogério Bacalhau, with the presence of Ana de Freitas, vice-rector of UAlg, Margarida Flores, district director of Social Security, Paulo Morgado,
president of the ARS, Madalena Feu, regional delegate of the IEFP, Francisco Marques, delegate
DGEST and Carlos Rodrigues, president of the Portuguese Cerebral Palsy Association of Faro.
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