Dawn to the Commission: Fund model centres for children and parents of disabled people

The funding of “model social centres for children and parents of disabled people” was called for in a question to the Commissioners for Finance and Budget, Valdis Dombrovskis and Piort Serafin, by ND MEP Giorgos Avtias, as a member of the Finance Committee.

Avtias stressed that he had received many requests from parents of children with disabilities and their associations, who told him that “they are worried about the future of their children when they are no longer alive, as they risk being left without support.”

The parents, therefore, as noted, “call on the European Commission to intervene immediately and decisively so that the projects they have submitted to the governments of the EU member states to support their children receive the necessary funding.” In other words, to support “this social necessity”

The text of the question by the MEP of the New Democracy and the EPP, G. Avtia, is as follows:

“Thousands of parents of disabled children in Europe and Greece are worried about the future of their children when they themselves pass away. They are looking for solutions to the trauma and the feeling of abandonment that their children will experience.

Parents of Persons with Disabilities, trusting in your sensitivity, make the following requests:

Fund model social centres. Already, exemplary projects have been brought to the attention of the governments (Member States) of the EU. Parent and child grow old together and the child is involved to the end in the life of his or her parent, who becomes a sacrifice for the child, and the structure will guarantee continuity of care.

Provide funds for the creation of model training centres for parents with disabled children.

Institute the institution of personal assistants for people with disabilities in residential care facilities throughout Europe and provide the corresponding financial support.

Fund the creation of European villages for children with disabilities, where the parent does not hand the child over at the village gate, but can live with the child as a worker, volunteer or carer.

Establish 14 May as the European Mother of a Disabled Child Day.

On the basis of these facts, will the European Commission say:

– Will it provide financial support for this extremely humane effort?

– Will it give the green light for the Member States to use European funds to finance this social necessity?”