JOSÉ LUIS BALTAR PUMAR President of the Province Council of Ourense

Right now, we are carrying out a programme organized by the Province Council, with the participation of the Consellería of Social Matters, called “INITIATION PROGRAMME TO WATER SPORTS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES FROM THE PROVINCE OF OURENSE”, consisting of a series of initiation and improvement lessons on water activities in Castrelo de Miño Sports Centre during summers.

The beneficiaries of the programme, integrated in the primary attention services of social matters, are people with disabilities (physical, mental and sensorial), with no age prerequisites, and living in the province of Ourense. They are split in three groups of 50 people each.

The lessons are totally free for the participants and, in addition, they are provided transport to the facilities where they take place.

The programme goals are:

In order to get these goals, the programme includes activities to share responsibilities among trainees and teamwork.

Several kinas of activities are carried out:

With swimming, with swimming-pool games, with non-for-competition pre-sport games and with the daily preparation of boats, the participants´ physical condition and psycho-mobility is improved. And their reasoning capacity and intellectual effort is also promoted.

Other project under implementation from the Province Council of Ourense, is the so-called “ACCESSIBILITY PLAN OF THE PROVINCE COUNCIL OF OURENSE”. It counts on the collaboration of the European Fund for Regional Development, Fundación Once and the Spanish Institute for Migrations and Social Matters.

This project is aimed at several Ourense municipalities: Allariz, Barbadás, O Barco, A Rúa, Maceda, Celanova, Carballiño, Trives, Verín, Ribadavia and Xinzo de Limia. It has a double goal:

Nowadays, it is necessary that the administration pay special attention to removing barriers in the different areas of urban environments in order to make accessibility an unavoidable requisite in the design of any town element.

Right now, the amount of people who face difficulties to interact with urban environments is increasing in developed countries due to two factors: the increasing aging of the population (consequence of the combination decreasing of birth-rate and increasing of life expectancy) and the advances of medicine. The same happens in the case of people with disabilities.

Taking into account the existence of many different barriers and obstacles in the different areas we live in, it is necessary to count on action programmes to improve the use of urban spaces, buildings, transport, etc, as stated in the most recent autonomic legislations in force.

Through this programme, we are working in the following urban areas of the previously said municipalities:

With these projects, the Province Council of Ourense tries to get an interrelation that makes possible for people with disabilities to seek for the necessary support for their normal living development in public institutions.

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