Extending a legal and social program for people with disabilities in Rio de Janeiro, by setting up a mobile office capable of reaching communities without access to it.
In Brazil, a country notorious for social exclusion, persons with disabilities are at the bottom of society, receiving scant attention from state or private concerns and unaware of their rights. The IBDD has a legal office providing free advice and helping those with disabilities in their struggle. However, Rio de Janeiro’s transport system is notoriously deficient; this is all the more so for poor people with disabilities in the periphery, which prevents many of the neediest from reaching us.
In an ethanol-powered van, a miniature legal office would be set up, staffed by a legal and social counseling team. This van would set up shop in different peripheral communities within the Greater Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area.
The project will, together with our fixed center, provide legal advice, professional training and education to persons with disabilities in poor areas, turning them from wards of their families or the state into productive, independent individuals.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
