Caring. Support to People with Disabilities
People with disabilities are the largest minority in the world. The right to live an independent life is an inalienable right in modern societies and is one of the founding aims of the IB. The IB therefore regards the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities as the basis of our demand to abolish all barriers in every-day life in order to grant all people equal rights and self-determined participation in social and economic life. People with disabilities face pervasive discrimination. Barriers in urban infrastructures (barriers in streets, buildings and public transport), in language usage, in educational systems and last but not least in the heads of the majority of society are well-known examples. Even today there are very few children with disabilities who attend regular schools. The IB therefore demands the abolition of all harming barriers in the environment of every single person and in our society in general. All of our activities and offers aim to make inclusion the reality for everyone. We want diversity to be recognised and honoured everywhere. We have expressed the way we understand inclusion in our guidelines called ‘Support to People with Disabilities’ that strictly follows the basic principles and the statute of the Internationaler Bund (IB). Individual development, self-determination and self-expression are focal points of our work. As a consequence, all IB pedagogical projects are guided by the basic concepts of empowerment und inclusion.