An efficient "Deficient" in search of his rights  
With collaboration of Andréa de Oliveira

It is what Christian Elvis Fernandes criticizes, with deafness and visual deficiency. "One thing that frequently happens with me, because of my limitation, is in relation to the collective bus of Bauru. Sometimes, I take the bus here at USC (University of the Sacred Heart) to get off downtown and to take another bus home. The driver forgets to inform me about the bus stop where I have to get off. There is an organic law which obliges the driver to stop where the disabled person needs to get off, but it is not respected".

Another important fact pointed by Christian is the behavior of the people in face of his limitations. He tells that, in function of his auditory disability, it is common to see people move away from him. Christian is a student at USC that promotes many programs of social insertion of the disabled person, and even in the university space he suffers with the disinformation.

The 2006 CNBB Campaign of Fraternity, that aims at spreading information among the Brazilian population on the reality of the disabled people, has been a good ally for Christian. And the biggest problem has already been detected: Francisco Ferreira Nunes, who co-ordinates the Campaign in Bauru, says that the discrimination happens because society is not prepared to deal with the question of the differences. "I have observed the generalized disinformation. The person, for not knowing the correct way to face the situation, moves away. He person simply discriminates", he reflects.

Therefore, the Campaign of Fraternity emphasizes the importance of the information. Well informed people diminish the distance between differences. Francisco clarifies that the motto "Raise. Come to society!" was Jesus Christ himself who said. "It was an insertion example because at that time, two thousand years ago, people discriminated any one with a physical defect. That man in the synagogue, where Jesus entered to speak to the people, was discriminated and set aside. Nobody gave him any importance. Then, Jesus called him and cured him in the front of all".

Luís Victorelli, journalist and director of the Brazilian Association of Scientific Journalism (ABJC), defends the respect to the differences in human beings. "Nobody is equal to nobody! Some cannot see, but they think better. Others have better hearing, others have more sharpened senses, and others not so much. It is a good time to stop judging what is different as better or worse only for being strange or for not being similar to the standard that we are used to".

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