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"
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