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San Fernando Municipality offers online social activities for people with disabilities

girl in a wheelchair sitting outside looking at a tablet computer together with a voluntary care worker

Through videoconferences, live broadcasts, posts, and phone calls, the teachers of the San Fernando Sports Disability Area develop classes, games, challenges, and slogans for their students, to integrate families, accompany them and to offer a space for relaxation, fun and reunion.

In compulsory quarantine, San Fernando accompanies people with disabilities to contain them. In this way, the people with disabilities department designed various activities for them to carry out in their homes during the coronavirus pandemic.

They divide the activities into 2 or 3 large groups: on the one hand, the neighborhood works on Saturdays, through zoom teachers gather and propose activities, always accompanied by family, an adult or brother with the cell phone or computer, said Lisandro Kolodny.

“Then, we have a second group, the Water Gymnastics, generally elderly people. Twice a week, activities are carried out by Zoom or Facebook, and taking into account the average age, sometimes they do not handle technology very well, so we get closer to each other, doing cooking workshops, dances, and activities related to Gymnastics in the Water”.

“The third group is Sports Activity: Zumbaile, “Patin” classes, and twice a week, we do live, top-rated classes. The last one was a Shadow Theater where the student joins in, but what interests us most is the family joining” he added.

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