Colombia, un país de oportunidades iguales para todos (víctimas de minas antipersonales)

Abstract

Within the framework of the principles of respect for difference and social justice, has built a communication policy that promotes a new social imaginary of people with disabilities and new ways of interaction with them. It has long been known to approach the problems that afflict the country, know its causes, how they manifest themselves and the way in which they affect the daily lives of citizens, is the first step in the path that leads to the improvement of life for all. One of the faces of the reality of the country, which is not yet known sufficiently, is one that has to do with the population in a condition of disability, people who, of the total of those who live in a situation of vulnerability, make up the majority group. That is why we see the need to confront and modify the myths existing in relation to people with disabilities, to which is proposed from an awareness strategy, understood as the construction of a social conscience with alternatives of improvement of the quality of life, starting from an acknowledgment and basic respect for the dignity of persons as human beings. The perception that the media have and partly through of them the public opinion about people in condition of disability is generally biased, pejorative and contrary to the reality, where dimensions of handicap, lack of capacity, social burden and personal tragedy.