Gordon Cardona lives in Malta. He has been blogging about the
efforts of the Maltese Labor party to create a new institution for people with
disabilities and in turn, Gordon is arguing for getting pwds into the
community.
This issue of institutionalizing people with disabilities remains a problem worldwide. Here in the great state of Iowa there are people even as I type who are in hospitals who would like to be in their communities.
It is safe to say that people with disabilities are only as free as the civic “ethos” of their local communities.
One thing that Gordon’s post reminds me of here in the United States is that people with disabilities are equally ignored by the GOP and the Democrats.
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