The mural is located in front of the Rehabilitation Center for People with Visual Impairment. Photo: Sebastian Granata.
The first public mural in Braille in Rosario will be inaugurated this Wednesday, in the Rehabilitation Center for People with Visual Impairment of the city of Santa Feto spread this traditional communication system of the blind.
The mural, unique in Rosario and the province, is a Project conceived from the Disability Directorate of the Municipality of Rosarioand embodied jointly with teachers and students of the Rehabilitation Center for People with Visual Impairment.
“Different? Everyone!” reads the unpublished mural written in Braille, which is the institution’s logo, and below it a large-type copy attached to the front wall, so that it can be appreciated by all the people who pass through the place .
The Director of the Rehabilitation Center, Mariel Massari, told Télam: “We are proud to have the first mural in Braille on the school’s façade. The objective is to make the reading and writing system of the blind visible.”
“People have to know that there is another reading system and, therefore, when they proposed this project to us, we thought it was great, because this institution will be 75 years old next year”commented.
The legend is written in Braille. Photo: Sebastian Granata.
He added that the Center “is the only institution in the south of Santa Fe dedicated to the rehabilitation of visually impaired people aged 15 and over.”
Massari said that the braille mural is added to the ‘educational sidewalk’, which consists of a strip with corrugated tile, in color, contrasting in relation to the color of the sidewalk, to guarantee the transit of people with low vision.
For her part, Gabriela González, the teacher who worked on the mural initiative with the blind children, explained: “We put together this project to spread the braille system and in commemoration of the White Cane Day, which was last October 15.”
“The Braille system fits on the fingertip, but we expanded this mural so that all sighted people who pass by the front of the institution can appreciate it,” he explained.
Meanwhile, the director of Disability of the municipality of Rosario, Adriana Ciarlantini, in dialogue with Télam, said that the mural that will be officially inaugurated tomorrow “is quite an innovation.”
“With its inauguration, the idea is to take advantage of the opportunity to disseminate the means of communication used by people with visual disabilities. Today we are happy because this project could be completed,” he celebrated.
The official and manager of the project said that the creation of the mural “also has to do with the anniversary of the institution, the works and repairs carried out on its façade to maintain the building’s heritage value.”
After noting that the Rehabilitation Center “is unique in Rosario,” Ciarlantini said that the institution “is a benchmark for inclusion and rehabilitation policies for people as soon as they acquire a diagnosis related to visual impairment.”
Finally, Marisa, Luciano, Malena and Damián, the blind children who participated in the design of the mural, agreed that it was “a wonderful, beautiful and fun experience.”
Photo: Sebastian Granata.
“We participated by placing the venecitas and ceramics on the wall. For us it is very important that we have participated with our hands in this project for the school, because it will remain forever”, Marisa emphasized.
The ´Luis Braille´ Rehabilitation Center for People with Visual Disabilities, in Rosario, is the only institution in the south of Santa Fe that has been providing free public care to blind people in the region and neighboring provinces for 74 years.
Its objective is the achievement of the maximum possible autonomy, respecting diversity and aiming at a full and dignified social participation of blind people.
Massari explained to Télam that the Center “has been providing care and support to blind people since 1948, so that they independently carry out their daily, educational, work and social activities.”
He added that the institution is dedicated to the rehabilitation of people with visual disabilities, “taking as its axis the goals and objectives of the national educational policy that raises the right to education throughout life.”
“Here a personalized pedagogical approach is provided, designed based on the needs and interests of the students, which contemplates the maximum development of their potential”Massari added.
The official said that for the educational approach, the Rehabilitation Center has areas of Orientation and Mobility, teaching of reading and writing Braille, computing and use of mobile devices.
According to Massari, in the extensive facilities of the institution, located at España 528, in the heart of Rosario, classes of practical activities, music therapy, physical education and manual work workshops are also taught.
Also, the Center has a school canteen and provides a glass of milkconcluded the official.
Photo: Sebastian Granata.
