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An efficient "Deficient" in search
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With collaboration of
Andréa de Oliveira
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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".
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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".
Incentive at the
university
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