During 20.01.2014 Eli and Zoli were at Brussels for 2 days.
They met there with EPSA board
4 persons with intellectual disabilities and their support persons.
EPSA is a platform of self-advocates where persons with intellectual disabilities make their voices heard and talk about their rights.
EPSA members are:Senada from Croatia, Ciara from UK, Eli and Luminita from Romania.
At this meeting topics were:
• self advocates conferrence from 2015.The topics were: workplaces for persons with disabilities,deinstitutionalization, familly, the right to decide,respect, how to make easy to understand materials,sexuality
• Elections in May 2014. Between 15-17h May, will be elections at Belfast. Self-advocates will choose 5 members who will lead for the next year. EPSA members must prepare an action plan for 2014-2015. This action will take masure for what self-advocates want to do.
• How to make EPSA members more active. Every member is responsable to be in touch with members from countries from Europe .Eli is responsable with members from Hungary,Norway,Holland and Denmark.
• In June will be Inculsion Europe conferrence in Kenya.
On our free time, we visited the city. We saw a statue in shape of a boy who pee. This statue is the symbol of Brussels. Story tells that this boy saved the city. When Dutches wanted to give fire to the city this boy stopped the wick with his urine.
During the night we got out in the city and we drunk beer. Eli had the chance to taste for the first time cherry beer.
We hope that all self-advocates from Europe will fight for persons with disabilities to live in community.
English version:Raluca Popescu
