Changing the image of the person with a disability as being an infirm person in the eyes of citizens and especially their children. This is one of the objectives that the Salé Disability Club has set for itself. And to succeed in this challenge, the club has proceeded to the development of a guide that aims to make non-disabled children aware of the need to change the image they have of the person with a disability. "We realised that this negative image is not held only by young people, but also by adults. The proof is that we received on the occasion of the start of the school year several visits from parents who came to complain about school principals or teachers who refused to admit children suffering from a motor disability into their classes," explains Abderrahmane El Moudni, head of the Disability Club.

He added: "Yet, Morocco has ratified the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its optional protocol. Something that will allow the adoption of an integral approach, which would go beyond the purely solidarity-based one, towards a global and integrated approach that challenges the citizenship of the person with a disability, guaranteeing them the exercise of their rights". In order to contribute to the implementation of this innovative approach at the regional level, the club has designed a guide of about twenty pages that will be distributed to associations working in this field at the level of Salé.

"The idea was not to create a guide that will serve to directly sensitise citizens, but rather a tool that other NGOs will be able to exploit as support to sensitise their members. This will allow reaching a greater number of individuals," explains the same source. This document is, moreover, part of a global project, namely the promotion of the right to inclusive education for children with disabilities in the city of Salé.

This project, which was implemented by the Disability Club in partnership with "Handicap International", was financed by the International Cooperation of the Principality of Monaco. "It has become necessary to abandon this purely medico-functional approach focused on the individual, and that establishments adopt towards citizens, in order to opt for a social approach that aims at the establishment of the rights of persons with disabilities and their effective participation in the various dynamics of society, as citizens and full members," concludes Abderrahmane El Moudni.