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Jesús Vidal recently received the Goya for Best New Actor for his work in Campeones, by director Javier Fesser.
That's why he gave a speech that moved both his colleagues and the viewers at home.
Jesus lives his daily life with a severe France Mobile Number List visual disability. «I chose to try to change my life and the world through my profession, as an actor. "You can fight through that channel very effectively, as has been seen with the dissemination that the speech has had."
Given this, the actor is grateful that there is more inclusion every day. For this reason, in his speech he had a notable motto: "Inclusion, diversity and visibility."
In an interview with El Diario, from Spain, Jesús Vidal said that for him diversity means that the world is made up of different people, "and when I say different I mean everything: sexual condition, abilities, opinions. I wanted to vindicate it. When talking about inclusion he was thinking about the work of Allende López, Campeones coach and director of the Amás group. She says that inclusion is a tool, not an objective, and I believe it is true: it is a tool to improve the world and achieve much better and more authentic results.
«I am aware that we are in a type of society that tends to be productive, to value the economy, but I think that projects like Campeones serve to break down that cliché and those barriers, that stingy management of resources. Yes I hope for a change. "I hope that the institutions put more effort into that regard from now on."
Vidal won the Goya and according to statements to the newspaper, neither the government nor the president recognized his work after winning the award.
«I do not expect very ambitious projects or improvements: only that people with disabilities and associations are listened to, that our wings are not clipped. This is what I think is most important: that institutions have the capacity to listen. "More than going to something concrete, what the State and administrations have to do to be competent is to be permeable to the needs that arise at all times."
Barriers to people with disabilities: Jesús Vidal
Regarding the barriers for people with visual disabilities, Vidal comments that in his case people do not understand what non-total blindness is.
«I am blind, affiliated with ONCE, but I do not have a guide dog or cane. And that is difficult to understand. At a work level, in many fields this has been a barrier for me. As an actor I have felt supported, I have not felt many obstacles since I dedicated myself to this, five years ago; But it is also true that it has involved a lot of struggle, an undertaking on my part and a constant effort.
What was it like being a college student who was almost completely blind? Is there really accessibility?
I was able to do it because of my family and especially because of the ONCE scholarship, which helped me a lot at that stage. Both for the scholarship itself and for the rehabilitation they provided me. I have a visual disability classified as high myopia, associated with retinal problems, which affected me as a result of a process that I experienced in childhood and that also affected my back. But it was when I was starting the race that I lost my right eye. From ONCE they helped me channel a lot of my efforts, they taught me to relearn how to study with only 10% of an eye. The process was laborious, until I gained cruising speed and was able to finish my degree. That is why I was able to overcome visual disability throughout my life, which was later recognized as blindness .
In terms of inclusion Vidal says that in education, the team called Campeones can contribute a lot in a transversal, non-optional education in values. «It can even be an axis on which it is built, because it provides all the values: diversity, inclusion, training, sport, how to channel frustration. It would be important to focus more on all this, because it is missing. "We are always on time and we can always improve, and I am optimistic."
That's why he gave a speech that moved both his colleagues and the viewers at home.
Jesus lives his daily life with a severe France Mobile Number List visual disability. «I chose to try to change my life and the world through my profession, as an actor. "You can fight through that channel very effectively, as has been seen with the dissemination that the speech has had."
Given this, the actor is grateful that there is more inclusion every day. For this reason, in his speech he had a notable motto: "Inclusion, diversity and visibility."
In an interview with El Diario, from Spain, Jesús Vidal said that for him diversity means that the world is made up of different people, "and when I say different I mean everything: sexual condition, abilities, opinions. I wanted to vindicate it. When talking about inclusion he was thinking about the work of Allende López, Campeones coach and director of the Amás group. She says that inclusion is a tool, not an objective, and I believe it is true: it is a tool to improve the world and achieve much better and more authentic results.
«I am aware that we are in a type of society that tends to be productive, to value the economy, but I think that projects like Campeones serve to break down that cliché and those barriers, that stingy management of resources. Yes I hope for a change. "I hope that the institutions put more effort into that regard from now on."
Vidal won the Goya and according to statements to the newspaper, neither the government nor the president recognized his work after winning the award.
«I do not expect very ambitious projects or improvements: only that people with disabilities and associations are listened to, that our wings are not clipped. This is what I think is most important: that institutions have the capacity to listen. "More than going to something concrete, what the State and administrations have to do to be competent is to be permeable to the needs that arise at all times."
Barriers to people with disabilities: Jesús Vidal
Regarding the barriers for people with visual disabilities, Vidal comments that in his case people do not understand what non-total blindness is.
«I am blind, affiliated with ONCE, but I do not have a guide dog or cane. And that is difficult to understand. At a work level, in many fields this has been a barrier for me. As an actor I have felt supported, I have not felt many obstacles since I dedicated myself to this, five years ago; But it is also true that it has involved a lot of struggle, an undertaking on my part and a constant effort.
What was it like being a college student who was almost completely blind? Is there really accessibility?
I was able to do it because of my family and especially because of the ONCE scholarship, which helped me a lot at that stage. Both for the scholarship itself and for the rehabilitation they provided me. I have a visual disability classified as high myopia, associated with retinal problems, which affected me as a result of a process that I experienced in childhood and that also affected my back. But it was when I was starting the race that I lost my right eye. From ONCE they helped me channel a lot of my efforts, they taught me to relearn how to study with only 10% of an eye. The process was laborious, until I gained cruising speed and was able to finish my degree. That is why I was able to overcome visual disability throughout my life, which was later recognized as blindness .
In terms of inclusion Vidal says that in education, the team called Campeones can contribute a lot in a transversal, non-optional education in values. «It can even be an axis on which it is built, because it provides all the values: diversity, inclusion, training, sport, how to channel frustration. It would be important to focus more on all this, because it is missing. "We are always on time and we can always improve, and I am optimistic."