11 May 2007

Bob


I am sure you have already heard about Bob, our English editor but most of all the most prolific contributor of the website.
Bob is handicapped, he has been struck twice by bad luck: a polio and a tragic car accident. It is very interesting to hear him talk about his own experience and what lead him to set up the
Operation Deshandicap.

Beyond the hospital, there are also needs, the rehabilitation is a very important step to make one accept and live with one’s handicap, one’s difference. As Bob says in his interview, as a Jesuit priest, he didn’t really need to think about his rehabilitation and he had all along the support of the Company of Jesus. The “Operation Deshandicap” was then set up in order to enable others to get the same chances of rehabilitation.

Bob also stresses out in his article
Handicaps and Rehabilitation the differences between a “handicap” and an “impairment” : “The truth is that in every society there are great numbers of “handicapped” people, not necessarily those afflicted with “physical or mental disabilities”, but also all those who are the victims of “financial, educational, environmental or cultural impairments” which prevent them from entering into the mainstreams of society and separate them from admission to the ranks of those entitled to enjoy the full benefits of belonging to “proper” society. “
 
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