Cyprus should implement a complete nationwide technique for folks with autism, Home president Annita Demetriou mentioned on Friday, stressing that it’s the state’s accountability to help these identified with the dysfunction.
Throughout a go to to the grownup intervention centre in Larnaca, run by the Affiliation for Individuals with Autism, Demetriou emphasised the necessity for a technique that goes past providing aid and gives significant help to kids with autism and their households.
“The state has an obligation to behave, and we imagine that this nationwide technique must be enhanced as a result of we now have seen it and it doesn’t embody every part it ought to,” she mentioned.
Demetriou assured that each one stakeholders had been united on this effort, recognising the significance of correct steering for youngsters, adults, and their households. She additionally pledged the Home’s help not just for these with autism but additionally for the centre’s workers, to allow them to proceed their important work.
She mentioned that “past the technique and every part that must be finished, an vital facet is the difficulty of hire paid month in month out to keep up the particular centres.”
“The aim is to discover a everlasting house right here in Larnaca. We are going to discover the feasibility of attaining this via grants and state contributions, guaranteeing better stability and safety,” Demetriou mentioned.
The Home president added that “if there’s something obtainable, then that’s good, in any other case we’ll see – in cooperation with the mayor of Larnaca and different authorities – how we are able to proceed in order that the centre will get its personal, privately owned, constructing.”
Chairwoman of the Affiliation for Individuals with Autism, Tasoula Georgiadou, thanked Demetriou and the MPs, the Larnaca mayor and members of the municipal council for attending the occasion and referred to as for “a joint effort to get our personal constructing.”
She added that over €30,000 had been being paid month-to-month for centres throughout Cyprus.
Demetriou additionally offered Georgiadou with a monetary contribution to help the centre’s operations.
