A wall located next toThe El Molino soccer fieldin Icod of the Wines; the Baldomero Bethencourt school; the IES Lucas Martín Espino, and the municipal pavilion has become a wall for inclusion and integration, a community and inclusive muralwhich will be present in the daily lives of thousands of children, young people and adults in this educational and sports environment in the North. Decorated by almost 60 handsunder the coordination of Matthias Matafrom Sabotage to Assembly, this initiative of the Apreme association has had the collaboration of the Icodense City Council and with the direct participation of students from local schools and institutes and users and workers of squeeze me.
On the drawings and the spontaneous phrases of the participants, Matthias Mata placed the faces, in semi-transparency, of Christ and Savior, a woman and a man, users of Apreme, who could not hide their pride and joy. What Oscaranother participant and user of the northern entity, who threw a party every time he showed someone his name, integrated into this mural inaugurated on the morning of this Wednesday, June 15, 2022.
«Public walls are for this: to show things and remind us of the need to continue advancing in this fight»
The director of Apreme, Beatrice Dortahighlighted the importance of this type of action that aims to “normalize and make disability visible”, contribute to stop treating this group “as if they were children”, and assume that “If we looked through their eyes, the world would be a much fairer place”.
This project, which began to take shape five years ago, involved students from educational centers in Campino, Good Advice, Julio Delgado Delgado, Las Abiertas, Lucas Martín Espino, Baldomero Bethencourt Francés and Nicolás Estévez Borges.
Matthias Mata thanked the work of Apreme and the City Council, “which have made possible this creative process carried out by all, with the value that children are not normally allowed to create freely, exposing their ideas and thoughts. That is why we decided that it was important to keep all those messages to raise awareness in the public space. A way also to talk about the transparency of being, through the gaze and the illusion of Christ and Savior».
The mayor of Icod, Francis Gonzalez (CC), made it clear that “public walls are for this: to show things and remind us of the need to continue advancing in this fight.” He announced that they will continue “with the effort to help and keep up with Apreme, who has all our admiration and affection.” Apreme is made up of a team of 13 professionals who work with 26 families of adults with disabilities of Icod, Garachico, Los Silos, Los Realejos, Puerto de la Cruz or Santiago del Teide.
