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‫‪LOGO‬‬

‫נוער לשם שינוי‬


PAGE 2-BEHIND OUR LOGO
Our Logo represents a symbol of abetment and awareness to our
differently abled brothers and sisters in our society. In the Logo, there is
a symbol of the differently abled people with leaves surrounding it; the
wheel part of the logo is a circle made out of hands. This demonstrates
our advocacy which is to lend a helping hand and to give hope and
encouragement to differently abled people for them to be happier in a
society that excludes them. Surrounding our logo, you can see two
leaves which means love and development which is formed during and
after our interaction with our differently abled brothers and sisters.
With this, we also aim for a society that gives better awareness to
them, to accept them as they are; human beings with different
capacities.
PAGE 3- VISION
The vision of youth for a change group is to develop a tool for
people to raise awareness among our differently abled brothers
and sisters and develop an understanding of how language and
attitude influence perceptions of disabilities. We are here to
spark conversations about disability and inclusion among
people in our generation with their peers, teachers, and
parents. We want to encourage them to express themselves
easily. We will strive hard to inspire people about our
movement especially the people who are part of this youth's
generation to be aware of the different lives we live in.
MISSION
For us to attain our vision, we hope to shift negative
perceptions of disability towards acceptance and respect by
providing others the knowledge about specific disabilities,
address disability stereotypes, and create more inclusive and
respectful learning environments. Our goal is for this to become
sustainable not only by promoting disability awareness and
sensitivity as a group, but also for this awareness to continue
into an ongoing and open discussion. We must:
Recognize the abilities of people with disabilities and
feel comfortable addressing disability
Develop empathy to know and understand what it may
feel like to have a disability and
Develop positive images of people with disabilities.
PAGE 4-SEE

As you can see there, we are playing


with the students of SPED Easter
college. We are interacting and talking
with them even though there is a
communication barrier. We prepared
games and snacks for them to enjoy.
We taught them how to dance and they
also taught us hand language which
gave us the opportunity to tell them how we feel and for them to tell
theirs.
Throughout the interaction we had with them we constantly ask if they
like the games or activities we prepared for them or if they were hungry
and such. After the interaction with them we bid our goodbyes and
they told us they actually enjoyed the activities we prepared for them.
We took a break and sat down and just talked to them about there
daily lives. We were amazed by how they were very optimistic despite
the fact that they live with differently from us. They taught us how to
say “I love you” “thank you” and more. We were somehow awakened
to the reality of our society that there are more to what we see from
the internet. For us we are lucky for we don’t have anything to worry
about but for some people they have hindrance in achieving their goals.
In our CIP the students there are diverse, they have different kinds of
issues regarding health. We observed how they interact with each
other and with us. They are very optimistic about things and as we
observed they prefer activities that involves physical like running or
jumping. We observed that People with severe physical or cognitive
disabilities sometimes need help with everyday tasks like cleaning,
dressing, bathing, and even using the toilet. Unfortunately, people
who need long term care can’t always choose where they get it. Many
are still forced by regulations and such into nursing homes, when they
could do just as well or better at home. For disabled people, this is
about basic freedom and the right to choose an integrated life of
possibilities or else be forced to live a restricted, regulated life waiting
around for something to happen.

PAGE 5- DISCERN

• Why does this situation exist? What are the root causes?
In our society we can experience anything and with our brothers and
sisters who are differently abled they experience much more than us
like, social inequality. Social Inequality- first we need to understand
what social inequality is- Social inequality is the existence of unequal
opportunities and rewards for different social positions or statuses
within a group or society. This affects most of the differently abled
people for they are criticized and left out here in our society. That being
said, disability also impacts a lot of people who have it. Why do such
social inequalities exist?
One approach to explain this situation is to blame society - that the
society are responsible for having this situation. This society doesn’t
include or are full of judgmental people, that they just judge the book
by its cover. According to this view, society has plenty of opportunities
for people and disabled people choose to be left out because they lack
the motivation and are discouraged for their disabilities.

• Political factors - Who decides? For whom do they decide? How do


decisions get made? Who is left out of the decision-making process?
Why? People or society are the ones who decides who to be left out.
People decides for the people who are differently abled, they control
their lives and they don’t include them because they think they are not
“in their level”. People who are
• Social factors - Who is included? Who is marginalized? Why?

• Historic factors - What past events influence the situation today?


• Cultural factors - What values are evident? What do people believe
in? Who or what influences what people believe and how they live?
b. Theological Reflection
• What lessons or values from Scripture can help us to interpret this
experience? e.g. the Prophets, the Beatitudes, the example of Jesus
himself and the parables he told.
With this experience we can pick up lessons that helps us to understand
the lives that our differently abled brothers and sisters live in. These
considerations give disability a meaning which lacks. For it turns out
that disability is not karma, as some would tell us: As [Jesus] passed by,
he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, 'Rabbi, who
sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?' Jesus
answered, 'It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the
works of God might be displayed in him.' (John 9:1-3) Nor is disability a
curse, as some people in our society still see it, disability are not
hindrances to God's grace in our lives – quite the opposite and, the
culture in some parts of the world today, in contrast to the culture of
Bible times and our society who shies away from disabled people. In
the Bible, disability is not seen as caused by God, even though God is
sovereign over it. From this experience our perspective from differently
abled people have changed and based on the scripture differently abled
people aren’t different from us it’s just that we, the society, look at
them differently well in fact they aren’t different but are unique human
beings.
•What key principles from the Church’s social teaching apply to this
situation. e.g. Human dignity, human rights and responsibilities, the
common good, principle of subsidiarity, option for the poor, care for
creation.
Human dignity because in a world warped by materialism and rejection
of respect for human life, human life is sacred and that the dignity of
the person is the foundation of moral vision for society which the
Catholic Church proclaims. We are one human family, whatever our
economic, racial, national, ideological and ethnic differences. Solidarity
means that loving our neighbor, so it means we must or should love our
neighbors no matter what. We can apply common good in this situation
for the common good as a foundational principle is closely intertwined
with Human dignity and leads to solidarity as described by John Paul II.
Because we are created as social beings, individual rights need to be
experienced within the context of promotion of the common good. We
must respect each and every one for we are made by one God so it
means there are no superior nor inferior in this world.
• Analyze the experience you had during your CIP in the light of
Scripture and the Church’s social teaching? Do biblical values and the
principles of the Church’s social teaching help us to see this reality in a
different way? Does this experience correspond with the vision and
teachings of Scripture and the Church’s social thinking? If not, in what
ways does it not match?
The principle of the Church’s social teaching and biblical values help us
to see this reality in a different way because we live in a world where
we see them as people lower than us. We do not give them chance to
prove themselves. Our experience in the CIP made us realize that they
are also like us; they are talented, intelligent, and know how to mingle
and get along with us. We easily made friends with them even though
there’s a communication barrier. This experience correspond with the
vision and teachings of Scripture and the Church’s social thinking
because we see the world in a different way which is why we

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