We were very excited to meet the team - Marcela, Diego and Carmen - and find out more about the work of CEINDES and the project that we would be involved in. We were given a presentation on the background of the organisation and the work they do here in La Paz, and then spent the next few days planning our baseline evaluation and thinking of activities and methods to gather the best information on how we should achieve our aims and what the beneficiaries wanted to get out of the project.
On Wednesday afternoon the people we are going to be working with came in to visit the CEINDES office and we used this time to carry out our baseline evaluation. After meeting everyone, we started with a discussion group with a couple of volunteers, the people with disabilities, and a couple of their parents. We discussed issues around disability and how they felt they were treated in society. This was a real eye opening experience for the volunteers as there is such a huge difference between how people with disabilities are treated in Bolivia compared to the UK.
Some of the other volunteers also carried out a role play then asked the people with disabilities to reinact how they were treated in society splitting them into two different groups. One group showed us how they were treated in a school environment. Whilst the others showed us how they were treated by the police when they were trying to protest their rights. This was very insightful and the videos will follow on the CEINDES Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/CEINDES-Bolivia/198147236907199.
If you are reading this and you have a story to share about how people with disabilities are treated in your society we would really like to hear it.
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