Jach'a Uru, the protagonists of our own development

The year 2005 started in the country the implementation of the program called Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) and to the extent that it strengthened the community work was visibilizando groups of fathers, mothers, or family members of people with disabilities who, once identified, are summoned by the technicians of the Program in order to provide information on disability rights, RBC and cross-cutting issues.

One of the effects is that these groups, especially those formed by mothers, begin to be structured in self-help groups, coming together to provide mutual support, exchange of information and experiences. These groups, especially in the urban area, among which stands out “Walking together”, “Yanapasiña”, ASOPANDIS”, “Pachamama” and “Khanatatiwa” are organized and carry out different actions of information and training, and to establish the main sources driving the local groups.

So in 2009, in response to the need expressed by leaders and members of these associations, we conducted meetings of meeting and socializing experiences among the principal leaders of existing organizations. These meetings gave rise to raise as their immediate objective the unification of the five associations in a “Partnership division”.

Leaders and representatives of local associations formed a committee impeller that, among its main priorities, determined to carry forward the foundation of the Association Departmental, the choice of a Directory, and the drafting of statutes and regulations, as well as the approval of the same in a General Assembly which was to meet the members of all the local associations.

Stop the effect, with the support of the CBR programme, met the principal leaders of local associations, who are the members of the base had been entrusted with the responsibility to discuss and define the future of the organizations to whom they were representing.

After a long debate, finally defines the unification of the local organizations, aiming to achieve a greater impact in the struggle for the vindication of the rights of their children with disabilities. Thus, in a democratic attitude, is chosen as the unique name of its instrument of struggle “Jach'a Uru”, the term aymara translated into Spanish means “Great day”, and was established as an Association of Parents and Family members of Children and Young people with Disabilities “Jach'a Uru”

So, faced with the need to fight reivindicativamente for the rights of their children with disabilities, July 13, 2010, it founded the Association of Parents and Family members of Children and Young people with Disabilities Jach'a Uru.