"How can society guarantee a real place for people with disabilities?" : Millions of French people are invited to answer this question and propose "concrete solutions", as part of a "major national consultation" launched Tuesday by Secretary of State Sophie Cluzel.
"Disability is everybody's business"
Employment, mobility, access to transport or housing, fight against prejudice: the French have until August 31 to submit their ideas on the handicap.make.org website, said Sophie Cluzel, who spoke at a meeting. press point since the Salon "Handicap, employment and responsible purchasing" at the Palais des Congrès in Paris.
"Disability is everyone's business, we have to get out of the handicap gap, make it clear that all French and French people are involved, that they can change the situation," she said. State for Persons with Disabilities. The results of this consultation will feed the reflection in the perspective of the National Conference on Disability (CNH), scheduled for the second half of 2019, she said.
Target 500,000 participants
The organizers have set a goal to convince 500,000 people to take part in the initiative, either by formulating a proposal directly or by giving their opinion on the ideas of others, said Axel Dauchez, Chairman of Make. org. "Then we will perhaps get 10 or 20,000 proposals, we will sort, decrypt, consolidate, then submit to workshops, throughout the regions, to be able to propose in a year a plan of action of civil society", added Axel Dauchez.
The idea is not necessarily to develop a government action plan, but to determine actions that could be implemented by civil society, he said.