Covid-19: Patriarchate of
Lisbon launches a new service to support disabled
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| Healthworkers at a hospital in Portugal (AFP) |
Among the people most affected by the isolation imposed
because of the Coronavirus are the disabled. For this reason, the Pastoral
Service for people with disabilities of the Patriarchate of Lisbon has decided
to launch a spiritual, psychological and logistical programme aimed at the
families who care for them.
By Vatican News
The new service has been established by the Pastoral Service
for people with disabilities of the Patriarchate of Lisbon. The
foundation has made available several family advisors to whom families can turn
in order to help them with problems and difficulties and also find solutions.
The consultants have already received several calls, with
some people asking for the delivery of medicines, while others just want words
of comfort. Among the requests for help are those from parents with disabled
children who are most affected by the inability to attend school together with
their classmates.
No less important, explains the foundation’s coordinator
Carmo Diniz, is the possibility for disabled people to participate in a life of
faith. Here too, new technologies have been very useful. It is a real
"pastoral boom", she says.
It also means that thanks to this technology, they
will be able participate in community meetings that previously required
more complex logistics for transport and access to event venues.
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