OHL and Fundación Adecco present the illustrated Diferentes guide, to remove social barriers and normalize disability issues

OHL and Fundación Adecco have presented the illustrated Diferentes guide, an initiative developed by Angels Ponce, a family therapist specializing in disability, and Miguel Gallardo, a well-known Catalonian illustrator who in 2008 was awarded the National Comic Prize in Catalonia for “María y Yo”, a comic strip that portrays his autistic daughter María.

This initiative is part of the commitment undertaken by OHL and Fundación Adecco to remove social barriers, normalize disability issues and encourage the integration of disabled persons on the job market. Luis García-Linares, General Corporate Manager of the OHL Group, directed an event that has confirmed OHL’s commitment to the social and occupational integration of disabled persons. “This initiative complements the occupational integration plan we have been developing since 2006 with Fundación Adecco and other entities which, over the last 3 years, has enabled us to integrate 32 professionals with a disability and/or at a risk of social exclusion into the construction sector, one involving the greatest difficulties and barriers”.

Diferentes focuses on diversity as the background of an ordinary situation in the life of more than three million families: disability. According to Emilio Zurutuza, chairman of Fundación Adecco, “it represents a philosophy according to which individuals begin their social and occupational integration with their family, as part of a process in which affection, education and autonomy are essential to endow people with self-determination and capacity to pursue and achieve their goals and, ultimately, their dreams, an issue in which everybody is equal”.

The work, addressed to 4-8 year olds, has a very visual and graphic format and takes the reader through ordinary daily issues; any child will view diversity as something enriching and normal.