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December 20, 2010
Progress Report form Otto san-Costa Rica
Hello jicafriends,
I am Otto Padilla from leadership course 2008, I want to share with you some activities developed during 2010.
I had worked in my radio program “Libre de barreras” (barrier’s free) in the local radio of Pérez Zeledón, I am working with Aida Gonzalez (independing living 2008) and Leonidas Godinez, both of them leaders of PWD Movement in my city and in the country.
In this weekly program we are used to invite people to share their story and how they face the barriers set by society, we also give information about human rights, CRPD and the local laws related to disability issue.
In my hometown Jica has implemented the Kaloie project, we are working together with the JICA staff and Japanese volunteers in activities, meetings, seminaries and they are usually invited to the radio show.
This year we began to transmit our program in internet using the radio website www.radiopz.com and we have received reports from outside Costa Rica, it made us so happy. If you want to listen to it online just browse www.radiopz.com , look for a graphic link of a ducky (patito) and click on it and you will listen to us every Wednesday at 6 am in Japan, Tuesday 3 pm Costa Rica local time.
Schools are the first place we need to work with and due to the reason that we need to change people’s perspective about PWD and now that I work for the Ministry of Public Education in Perez Zeledon, in the Pedagogical Department as an assistant advisor for the Musical Office I have the support of my boss to have among my duties the chance to go to primary schools in my city to share with teachers and kids about the role guide dogs have and new concepts in disability.
All these activities that I have mentioned have increased a lot because of my training in Japan. I can evaluate myself in terms of this training and now I have a wider vision how to get to people and move my acquired knowledge from theory to practice in real life situations.
Finally I want to express my deepest thankfulness for my growth as a person , for the time I shared in the Japanese Culture, for the friends I made from different countries and for the way JICA treated me and for the support I still have from the JICA Stafff in Costa Rica.
Best regards and I wish you a very Happy Christmas and a highly productive 2011.
Cordially yours
Otto Padilla
Posted by jicafriends at December 20, 2010 09:30 AM