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Cara House Family Resource Centre in Letterkenny will hold the first AGM of the Donegal Disabled Persons’ Organisation (DPO)
A Disabled Persons’ Organisation for Donegal is set to launch in Letterkenny in advance of International Day of Disabled Persons.
The initial AGM of the Donegal Disabled Persons’ Organisation (DPO) will take place in Cara House, Letterkenny, from 1:30pm on Tuesday, December 2, the day before International Day of Disabled Persons.
Community Development worker for the Independent Living Movement Ireland, Pippa Black said: “The DPO is a democratic organisation of disabled people representing ourselves. We decided to time our AGM to celebrate the International Day of Disabled People on December 3.
“The day was renamed in 2007 but as a DPO we are consciously reclaiming its first name in the same way that we consciously use identity first language. We describe ourselves as disabled people. This is because we apply the social model of disability. We do not see ourselves as being disabled by our impairments. Instead, we are disabled by barriers that are socially constructed. Sometimes those barriers are physical like stairs or lack of public seating, sometimes they are attitudinal like when other people decide what we are capable of. We are not ‘persons with disabilities’, as we are trying to eliminate barriers, not carry them around with us.
“Under the UN Convention for the rights of disabled people, the State (including local authorities) must engage with disabled people through our representative organisations when implementing and monitoring our human rights or when making plans and policies that affect us.
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“We are actively seeking new members who have lived experience of barriers based on real or perceived impairments and who live, work, or play within county Donegal. We are also reaching out to find disabled people, who are members of other marginalised groups, who likely face multiple levels of discrimination. Membership is free. We unite around our slogan 'Nothing about us in Donegal without us', and we take our representative role very seriously, holding ourselves accountable to our members.”
Anyone who would like to join Donegal DPO can email DPO4Donegal@gmail.com or call Pippa on 087 477 0965.
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