In the dark, with helpless sense. Thus many people felt Disability. Social aid protocols and above all, urgent need with informal support networks They work when everything stops.
This is not the fact that the state is not functioning. Security forces, local authorities and many professionals have again demonstrated dedication and performance. But In the middle of the collapse, the only machine that never exits is the most powerful thing to check that people are good. An improved unity, a neighbor who touches the door, an organized family without waiting for the instructions.
From this tribune I would like to start a specific project: Create informal help networks that protect people with disabilitiesFor their families, our elderly and before emergency, from access to information, movement or basic help. Because a few days ago, with the fallen electric network, the only source of information available is radio. Today, many people are no longer one. Bad: Many deaf people are unable to access any information In that environment. It is not just to be dark: remain silent without knowing what is going on or what to do.
In recent years We have become experts in raising the crisis. We learned to live with uncertainty, improve support systems and take care of ourselves if everything fails. But there is still an essential connection: the daily system when disappearing daily.
Having a incandescent lamp or generator is not enough. If you can’t load the electric wheelchair, you need to think about what if a crane stops working. Who knows how to help us? Who can enter the house? We cannot reduce the stairs, we take a definitive medicine, who knows that the Internet is not accessible or a simple incandescent lamp?
In this sense, a little known but has the basic legal proof: Recognizing the address as an essential delivery for electrification persons. It is included in the Electricity Department’s 24/2013 Act and allows the power distributors to register as a priority point for a person, for example, a respiratory tool, a food -feeding pump or motor fitted bed dignity and protection. Although it does not guarantee the total impossibility of the cuts, the distributors are forced to take into account the situation in their interference or maintenance plan, even if it is issued a medical certificate and registration. This is a small step in the bureaucracy, but the largest in safety.
In the middle of emergency, informal support networks have not been upgraded. They have been built before. They are a group of people – life, family, close friends – what to do, who should call, and how to act if you can’t. They do not change social services, but they are filling and progressing, and they are often fast, more humans and are more effective in the first moments of crisis.
Accepting help is not lost by autonomy. Conversely: When we know that we are not alone, when we hear guilt, we have created links that are not dependent on a protocol, but this is strengthened based on mutual commitment. Depending on each other is not weakness, it is social intelligence.
Of course, you need to do the technical area: drugs, equipment mounted, visible contacts, a minimum plan. But really strategic – saving lives – emotion, related, community. A human network that does not turn off even though light.
It was not an apocalips that happened in April, but it was a sign. He reminded us that it seems to have been guaranteed today, and that tomorrow may fail without a prior announcement. The only thing that guarantees the minimum security on that uncertainty is that someone knows where you are, what you need and how to help you.
No one can confirm that it won’t happen again. That is why, We will create essentials beyond the lighting lights, batteries or protocols: a community that can be stabilized when the rest fails. Wi -Fi or electricity that is unnecessary to work. At the end of the day, what is really important is that we are, we are, and reminds you that someone knows that everything does not want to face alone.
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