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Full inclusion of people with disabilities is a challenge facing our society. Fortunately, steps are being taken to achieve this - some very close to us. This May, four people with intellectual disabilities are undertaking an internship at different centres of the Universitat Politècnica de València, thanks to the Vice-Rectorate for Arts, Science, Technology and Society through the UPV's Social Action Area and the .

Thanks to this agreement, Carlos, Celia, Aroa and Dario, students with intellectual disabilities, are gaining their first experience in the world of work. A valuable opportunity that allows them to be independent and enter the professional world.

The internship students

Carlos is brilliant with computers. In fact, he wants to work in IT. After two years of training with his tutor at Asindown, it is now time for him to do an internship. He is working at the School of Aerospace Engineering and Industrial Design. Every day, he digitises information from final Bachelor's theses in the library and is responsible for shredding paper.

Celia is 18 years old and helps at the central library by organising books, stamping them, and managing reservations. She finds the experience 'really cool and fun because I get to do a bit of everything, and it's all very varied'.

Aroa, meanwhile, is doing her internship at the UPV's International Programmes Office, where she inputs data into the computer and is responsible for filing and shredding paper. She is 'really happy' with this experience and feels 'really comfortable' with her colleagues.

The group doing their first work experience this month is completed by Dario at the Faculty of Fine Arts. Although he wants to devote his future to something related to animals - he is a regular visitor to the Bioparc and loves hyenas and penguins - he values this experience as something 'unforgettable'.

With the support of their mediators

Although they aim to be completely independent in the coming weeks, their work experience at the UPV has begun with the help of four mediators from the foundation, who accompany them throughout the day and are available to help with anything they need.

Amparo Quilis, from the UPV's Social Action Area, values this experience very positively 'because of the empathy created and the links with the university'. In addition, Amparo adds, 'you think you are helping, but you are learning'. The staff who work with them, she says, 'grow in experience'.

About Asindown

ASINDOWN is a non-profit organisation created in 1989, whose main objective is to facilitate and promote whatever means are necessary to achieve the comprehensive development of people with Down syndrome and to promote their full integration into family, educational, work and social life as active members of society.

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