This music is one of the best music creates to make known the importance and the things in common wth the "normal people" and the people with disabilities.
Translation of the letter of the song to English:
There where the light comes
Away from my place
I found a clover of one thousand tons
And already in my hand
I looking for without believe
If it was to me the unusual extra leaf
Refrain:
There are rare people who you are
There are rare people that I am
The same source, the same look
My luck
It can also be yours
I will follow watering the heart
Refrain (2x)
There are rare people who you are
There are rare people that I am
The same source the same look
There where the light comes
Away from my place
The same source, the same look
domingo, 8 de março de 2009
This is a case of a young person that is integrated into the world of work in Portugal.
"Mafalda Ribeiro has 25 years of an unusual life. She studied journalism at the “Escola Superior de Comunicação Social”, but she is communication expert. She’s not a journalist in practice, but the taste for journalism and the letters makes here head move, even if the legs do not obey. Coexists with osteogenesis imperfect and moves in a wheelchair. She already writes for ten years and for one she writes a weekly chronicle of opinion in the “Notícias da Manhã” newspaper. The profession and passion for writing combined with the ability to manage her time in order to perform on a freelance adviser to the activities of the press, production and promotion of events in areas of cultural roots. She writes songs and surrounds herself with musicians and music in an attempt to bridge the kind of frustration of not being a pianist. She does voluntary in projects of social solidarity and never shuts up ... Mafalda has always something to "say"!"
Sources: Book "Mafaldisses"
http://www.ajudas.com/imgNews/mafalda2.jpg
Portugal employs more than half of its disabled.
Portugal is one of the countries with the highest percentage of disabled employees, and there is professionally active 55.2 percent of the Portuguese people with disabilities, or more than half of the universe. A comparison with five other European countries, Portugal leads the employability of these people, up from countries like England (54.6%) and Denmark (52.8%). At the other end of the table are placed Lithuania, Spain or Italy, countries where the percentage of inactive disabled people is well above of those with a job.
Sources:http://google.com/wikipedia
http://www.tramacomunicacao.com.br/imagens/gde/DMR2_gde.jpg
The Famous Tower of Babel
The Tower of Babel was an enormous tower built at the city of Babel.
According to the biblical account, a united humanity, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, took part in the building after the Great Flood; Babel was also called the "beginning" of Nimrod's kingdom.
The people decided their city should have a tower so immense that it would have "its top in the heavens. However, the Tower of Babel was not built for the worship and praise of God, but was dedicated to the glory of man, with a motive of making a 'name' for the builders: "Then they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'" (Genesis 11:4).
God, seeing what the people were doing, confounded their languages and scattered the people throughout the earth. It had been God's original purpose for mankind to grow and fill the earth.
So it was impossible to build this tower, and with that the humanity learns about the different languages that exist all over the world, and how is hard to know all of them.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel
Children Rights
The Childrens are our future, to protect them the ONU made this desclaration about their rights, and supposedly none of these clauses must be broken. But, in many circunstances they are broken.
On 20 November 1959, the ONU made the Declaration of the Children Rights, with 10 articles:
1 - The child should be able to develop physical, mental, moral, spiritual and socially, with freedom and dignity.
2 - The child has a right to a name and a nationality, since his birth.
3 - The child has the right to food, leisure, to have a house and adequate medical services.
4 - The child should grow supported by their parents and under their responsibility, in an environment of affection and security.
5 - A mentally or physically impaired child should receive treatment, education and care.
6 - The child has the right to education free and compulsory, at least in the elementary stages.
7 - The child in all circumstances, should be among the first to receive protection and relief.
8 - The child must be protected against all forms of neglect and exploitation. It should not work before an appropriate age.
9 - Children must be protected practice of racial, religious, or any kind.
10 - The child must be educated in a spirit of understanding, tolerance, friendship, brotherhood and peace among peoples.
So, take care of your childrens!
Source: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direitos_da_crian%C3%A7a
The Childrens are our future, to protect them the ONU made this desclaration about their rights, and supposedly none of these clauses must be broken. But, in many circunstances they are broken.
On 20 November 1959, the ONU made the Declaration of the Children Rights, with 10 articles:
1 - The child should be able to develop physical, mental, moral, spiritual and socially, with freedom and dignity.
2 - The child has a right to a name and a nationality, since his birth.
3 - The child has the right to food, leisure, to have a house and adequate medical services.
4 - The child should grow supported by their parents and under their responsibility, in an environment of affection and security.
5 - A mentally or physically impaired child should receive treatment, education and care.
6 - The child has the right to education free and compulsory, at least in the elementary stages.
7 - The child in all circumstances, should be among the first to receive protection and relief.
8 - The child must be protected against all forms of neglect and exploitation. It should not work before an appropriate age.
9 - Children must be protected practice of racial, religious, or any kind.
10 - The child must be educated in a spirit of understanding, tolerance, friendship, brotherhood and peace among peoples.
So, take care of your childrens!
Source: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direitos_da_crian%C3%A7a
Association "Econtrar+se"
The portuguese Association Encontrar+se is launching move "Together to help"
It launched the movement UPA - United to Help, part of the awareness campaign of Encontrar+se, Association of Support for People with Severe Mental Disorder.
Under the slogan "Stand up against the discrimination of mental illness", the movement entered into a combination project of the Portuguese music, through partnership with influential personalities of Portuguese musical scene.
So, every month, two persons of the national music will collaborate in the recording of a song referring to the themes proposed by Encontrar+se, taking place on the basis of two conflicting concepts.
The association seeks so alert to the need for a change of mentality in the way mental illness is seen among us. "The UPA search of a responsible and happy, to get people to take the small step that makes all the difference in the understanding and acceptance of mental illness.
This "get up against" is all directed to people who do not accept, delay, deny and live in suffering because of mental illness as for any of us who still deal with this evil reality, 'says Filipa Palha, coordinator of the Project Encontrar+se!
So GET UP!
See the testemonial on http://www.encontrarse.pt/ =)
sábado, 7 de março de 2009
Amnesty International
Who We Are
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all.Our supporters are outraged by human rights abuses but inspired by hope for a better world - so we work to improve human rights through campaigning and international solidarity.We have more than 2.2 million members and subscribers in more than 150 countries and regions and we coordinate this support to act for justice on a wide range of issues.You can help make a real difference by becoming a member or supporter of Amnesty International.
How You Can Help
Amnesty International doesn’t just reveal the outrage of human rights abuse but inspires hope for a better world through public action and international solidarity.
We help stop human rights abuses by mobilizing our members and supporters to put pressure on governments, armed groups, companies and intergovernmental bodies
There are many ways you can help us, including making a donation, joining Amnesty International and taking action.
About Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights to be respected and protected for everyone. We believe human rights abuses anywhere are the concern of people everywhere.
So, outraged by human rights abuses but inspired by hope for a better world, we work to improve people’s lives through campaigning and international solidarity.
Our mission is to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated.
Our members and supporters exert influence on governments, political bodies, companies and intergovernmental groups.
Activists take up human rights issues by mobilizing public pressure through mass demonstrations, vigils and direct lobbying as well as online and offline campaigning.
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all.Our supporters are outraged by human rights abuses but inspired by hope for a better world - so we work to improve human rights through campaigning and international solidarity.We have more than 2.2 million members and subscribers in more than 150 countries and regions and we coordinate this support to act for justice on a wide range of issues.You can help make a real difference by becoming a member or supporter of Amnesty International.
How You Can Help
Amnesty International doesn’t just reveal the outrage of human rights abuse but inspires hope for a better world through public action and international solidarity.
We help stop human rights abuses by mobilizing our members and supporters to put pressure on governments, armed groups, companies and intergovernmental bodies
There are many ways you can help us, including making a donation, joining Amnesty International and taking action.
About Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights to be respected and protected for everyone. We believe human rights abuses anywhere are the concern of people everywhere.
So, outraged by human rights abuses but inspired by hope for a better world, we work to improve people’s lives through campaigning and international solidarity.
Our mission is to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated.
Our members and supporters exert influence on governments, political bodies, companies and intergovernmental groups.
Activists take up human rights issues by mobilizing public pressure through mass demonstrations, vigils and direct lobbying as well as online and offline campaigning.
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Our campaigning remains firmly rooted in the power of individuals working in support of others who need protection or support.
Working with and for individuals the world over, we campaign so that every person may enjoy all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We undertake research and take action aimed at preventing and ending grave abuses of these rights, demanding that all governments and other powerful entities respect the rule of law. It means we campaign globally and locally where ever we can make a difference. For example, we take action to:
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Thousands of Amnesty International members respond to Urgent Action appeals on behalf of individuals at immediate risk. Publicity through the news media and the internet takes our message in many languages to millions of people.Campaigning can change people’s lives – of victims and survivors of human rights abuses, of human rights activists and defenders and even of the abusers.
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