The government delegate in Aragón, Fernando Beltrán, has learned in situ how the ‘Rumbo’ project is being implemented in Aragón and, specifically, in Caspe. Beltrán, accompanied by José Manuel Jariod, vice president of COCEMFE, has gone to the home of one of the beneficiaries of the program to check how it is positively impacting their quality of life.
The ‘Rumbo’ project is driven by leading organizations in the social sector of disability with funding from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Agenda 2030 through NextGenerationEU funds. Specifically, in Aragón it is managed by Cocemfe Aragón (it has 499,999.78 euros) and Aspace (116,819.15 euros). In total, in Spain, the national investment is more than 10.5 million euros. In addition, there is another project also financed in Aragon with European funds but aimed at intellectual disability (the ‘Mi Casa’ project) which is endowed with 2.5 million euros and which manages Full Inclusion in Aragon.
The resource that the delegate has known today is managed by COCEMFE, which maintains several services in rural areas and serves 46 people currently. Specifically, through the assistance of 12 personal assistants and an occupational therapist, together with adaptation measures in homes, it has been possible for users such as Amparo Sancho to increase their autonomy and it is possible to delay as much as possible their entry into care institutions.
The government delegate in Aragón, Fernando Beltrán, stressed that ‘Rumbo’ supposes “a totally personalized system of assistance that takes into account the lifestyle, residence and needs of each user”, thanks to the combination of “a specific training for the people who provide the service and technological elements, such as alarm buttons or devices to detect falls”. Because of this, ‘Rumbo’ is “an effective way, without taking people out of their homes, to combat the conjunction of illness and loneliness, as well as a magnificent project to establish population in the territory with the creation of employment for a project of social dimension”.
For Beltrán, initiatives such as this are the demonstration “of the commitment of the Government of Spain to the autonomy of dependent people so that they can develop a life as happy and comfortable as possible, live where they live”
The project “Rumbo” has an investment of more than 10.5 million euros at the national level and involves five state organizations of the social sector of disability along with its associative fabric: the Spanish Confederation of People with Physical and Organic Disability (COCEMFE), the Spanish Federation of Brain Damage (FEDACE), the ASPACE Confederation, the State Representative Platform of People with Physical Disability (PREDIF) and the Autism Spain Confederation.