ALCAJYM

Statistics

 

The following statistics show is the amount of people in Mexico with one of the conditions we will attend on the shelter.

 

According with data provided from INEGI, 1 of 700 children are born with Down Syndrome, being this the intellectual disability that has his origins on genetics, most common on the world.

The Mexican Clinique of Autism, shown that 1 of 150 children are born with Autism.

Data provided by the Mexican Civil Hospital, shown that 1 of 600 children are born with Cerebral Palsy and 1 of 300 children are born with some degree of Hydrocephalus.

 

This data shown that on Jalisco there is over 125,000 people with one on this conditions, and on México over 1'920,000 people.

 

Why are this kids transferred to ALCAJYM?

 

It has been identified 4 main reasons to why these children arrived to our shelter.

 

- Sadly their parents died and there’s no one else that can take care of the little one.

 

- Due to the amount of work and time that a special kid demands, some parents are unable to take care of them, or even have to leave work to look after them, causing a severe economic and familiar instability, especially if the family has an economic disadvantage.

 

- The Family State Council (Consejo Estatal de la Familia), send us kids that have been abandon or abused to be attended on the shelter.

 

- Kids that where placed on different shelters of the state, but there’s a lack of infrastructure, training, knowledge and time that these kids demands and need to be able to take care of them. On most cases they even suffer the famous bullying by their own peers.

 

 

Society:

 

According to psychologists and specialists on this subject, when a kid is born with these conditions, it starts a duel on the parents, a feeling of impotence, sadness, deception, fears, anguish, guilt, even fights and discussions among them that in some cases can leave them to the dissolution of the marriage.

 

Besides all of these, some parents accept their duty and come to realize the great blessing it is to have a special child on their lives. Never the less, many others refuse their job and there is when the child began to suffer the reject or even abandonment

 

Another situation this kids face is when the parents died. Many of them, because of the attentions, time and cares demand, their relatives do not have the possibility to take care of them, leaving them on abandonment. This is the main worry of a parent when he has a child with some of these conditions, “What would be of my child when I’m gone?”

 

The main goal of our shelter “Albergue Infantil La casa de Jesús y de María A.C.” is to bring hope accompany with professional attention, not only to the children, but their parents as well. Our objective is to transform the rejection, heartbreak and suffering this kids face, to love, carrying, trust, acceptance, and the opportunity of feeling part of a family, to know that it’s ok to be themselves, besides providing the professional attention and education each of them needs.

 

There’s no an official record on how many children with intellectual disabilities exists on the different shelters, but one thing is certain, there is no training, infrastructure, nor attention that kids with these conditions need in Jalisco’s shelters. The president of the State Commissions of Human Rights (Comisión Estatal de Derechos Humanos, Jalisco (CEDHJ)), Felipe de Jesús Álvarez Cibrián, on September 12, 2013, declare for a local newspaper about the vulnerability of kids with any kind of disability on Jalisco’s shelters: “On Jalisco there is no infrastructure nor specialists from the public functions that can give the attention to those kids that are vulnerable” ("Queda de paso que en Jalisco no hay la infraestructura ni los especialistas desde la función pública que puedan dar esa atención a estos niños que son vulnerables”).

 

Many of the kids with any kind of disabilities that are found on shelters, besides the lack of infrastructure and special attention for their needs, are victims of rejection and discrimination by the other children, becoming the main target of the so mention bullying. A study made on April 2013, shows that over 40% of the kids in elementary school suffers of bullying. Dr. Paulina Domínguez, specialist on disabilities subjects and right for people with disabilities, mentions that kids with intellectual and physical disabilities are the most likely to receive this kind of abuses, sometimes in an unconscious way or even by ignorance and mention that “the psychological damage is severe, the kids become insecure, isolated, with poor school performance; the child that suffers it becomes use to it and began to consider violence as something normal” (“El daño psicológico es grave, los niños se vuelven inseguros, aislados y con bajo rendimiento escolar; quien la padece acaba por acostumbrarse a ella, y comienza a considerar la violencia como algo normal”. )

 

     We believe and fight to give this kids a home where they can be accepted as they are, where there’s no disabilities nor difference, where they are all the same and consider special, but not because of their genetic condition, but for being a unique human being with characteristics and gifts of their own.

 

     In our home we are able to see each and every one of our children and identify their unique characteristics and abilities, giving them the tools and teachings to develop and potentiate them, so they can become an integrate part of society and being the most independent they can be, feeling always the support and love of a family that accept them as they are and encourage them achieve the most of themselve