Please join us at the meeting with the authors of the book People Who Care (Personas que cuidan), published by the Chilean Foundation for Disability in 2022. The team – Matias Poblete Sandoval, Catalina González Maldonado and María José Salazar Soto  – will share their experience. The meeting will be led by Aleksandra Matyja and will focus on creating specific type of services and on the situation of people with disabilities and their families in Chile. 

The event is part of the Polish Network of Respite Tourism networking activities and will accompany this year’s International Short Break Association (ISBA) conference, held between September 11 – 14 in Wrocław, the capital of the Lower Silesia in Poland. 

The meeting with representatives of the Chilean Foundation for Disability is addressed to all people active in the area of respite services – both within official institutions and NGOs. During the meeting, we will discuss good practices related to establishment of this type of services, as well as good practices and solutions that are effective in the daily work within the respite services sector.  

lmportant information:

The meeting will be held on the 11^th of September at 2 p.m – 3.30 p.m in Dolnośląskie Centrum Filmowe (Lower Silesian Film Center, address: Wrocław, Piłsudskiego 64A). The meeting is open to all public and no registration is required. The meeting will be held in Spanish, with consecutive interpretation into Polish provided. The meeting will also be interpreted into Polish Sign Language.

Participation in the event is deemed to signify acceptance of the Terms and Conditions available both at the venue and online by clicking this link: [LINK].

The meeting is held within the framework of the task "Polish Network of Respite Tourism - networking meeting". The task is financed from the funds of the Marshal's Office of the Lower Silesia Region.

The event will be hosted by the institutional partner, the Lower Silesian Film Center - one of the cultural institutions of the Local Government of the Lower Silesia Region.