On 23 October 2000 and after attending a workshop for caregivers who organized the City of Parla, and have the opportunity to meet, met a group of family members decided to create a partnership in the European Parliament to fight for the rights of people affected by Alzheimer's Disease and came AFA Parla.
At first they met in the Department on Aging, there were few activities and look forward to achieve goals. It soon won a place in a room shared with 2 other associations in the C / Jericho, 24. Those were times of paperwork, registrations in the registers, creating of the statutes and rules of procedure, the first projects that could deliver funds and most importantly, to launch the first warning message to society. We met with a familiar yet unknown disease who did not know to what they faced and, worst of all, without help.
were difficult years, a lot of work, whenever you create something that comes out of nowhere, you have to learn on the fly, improvising practical solutions to situations that were happening. Soon came the first workshop, on one hand to the family and the other side started the first workshop for psychostimulation affected. A very small group of people during the morning performing activities designed to help slow the progression of their disease.
need more space and more professional, and the association grows, gets more funds intended to expand services and in less than 5 years is configured as a body weight in the municipality. With the first strategic plan is planned to create different workshops in order to respond more personally to each one of the people.
major reforms were needed in local facility to improve and adapt to the needs of their users and our City Council was always prepared to respond to our demands, and as far as possible to give us more space to develop our work.
It's been ten years since our inception and we have three different therapy groups we work with very early stages in the homes and we also deal with the most advanced, being always very attentive to attend the needs of carers, giving them our support, advice, and especially leaving it to them to decide how they want things done, because we can not forget that we are an Association Relatives, created by Family and their service.
Today we have a great team , its main engine is a vocation, are involved as possible in everything we do and do not stop innovating, creating new responses to the needs that arise days day. With a team like that is very easy to feel that anything that we think can become reality.
In the coming years we will focus on getting a facility with more capacity and adapted to the needs of our users, we want to be the focal point of the south.
It was difficult to make this review of our recent history and see that many people who have been left on the road, seeing the photographs are many memories that come to my mind and want this post pays homage to all of them, for which we fought and thanks to those who are here today will always be in our memory.
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