The First Lady of the Central American country describes CASP as “a successful education model and a mandatory reference example for the services that provide for people with special needs.”
In the capital city, the First Lady of the
Dominican Republic, Cándida Montilla de Medina, and the General Director of the
Ann Sullivan Center of Peru (CASP), Dr. Liliana Mayo, Ph.D., endorsed a
framework agreement of interinstitutional cooperation through which the
Peruvian educational model of CASP will be provided to the services offered by
the Dominican government and in this way contribute to developing the
possibilities for people with different abilities in the Dominican Republic.
“For me it is an honor to endorse this agreement
with the Ann Sullivan Center of Peru, an institution that constitutes a
successful and exemplary educational model in the services offered to people
with special needs” Montilla de Medina said after the agreement signing on
July 26 of this year.
“CASP, as well as Dr. Mayo,” Mrs. Montilla de
Medina said, “inspire a feeling of profound admiration and much pride, because
they have much love, dedication and hope. We are trying to do the same thing in
the Dominican Republic, and with their help, we will achieve it.”
The First Lady of the Dominican Republic thanked
CASP in the person of their “enthusiastic and visionary director, Dr. Liliana
Mayo, for the signing of this agreement that will allow our children to be able
to be nourished by the extraordinary experience of this institution to change
lives and give opportunities to families that thought their hopes for the
future of their children with different abilities were lost.”
The endorsement occurred in the CASP Auditorium
in the presence of the ambassador of the Dominican Republic to Peru, Rafael
Julián; the president of the National Council on Disability (CONADIS), Wilfredo
Guzmán; representatives from the Dominican Republic; and the Lady’s Committee,
specialists staff, parents and students from CASP.
We know that the Center of Integral Attention
for Disability (CAID), which is destined to provide for the care, education,
rehabilitation and attention of the children that present special needs, is
being developed by the dispatch of the First Lady of the Dominican Republic and
it will be inaugurated at the end of this year.
This is the second country at the governmental
level that has requested the transfer of the educational system of CASP. Last
year, the First Lady of Panama, Marta Linares de Martinelli, did the same for
the Ann Sullivan Center of Panama.