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		<title>Madmundo.tv - Omar: Do you accept my "handicap"?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Omar Koussih is 19 years old and suffers from spinal amyotrophy. He lives in Rabat with his family. He spends much of his time writing poems. In the spring of 2007, Omar wrote to madmundo to ask for help in promoting the Rights of Handicapped People. Thus started the story of the film “OMAR:DO YOU ACCEPT MY “HANDICAP?” What education for handicapped people? What work for them? What access to things of everyday life? How does society view them? And most importantly, how do they view society… What Rights do they have?

We went looking for answers for and with Omar in Morocco, France, Japan, and the United States. And on the way, Omar saw one of his dreams come true: attending a football match of the Barça team; and hearing the team players - Henry, Eto’o, Messi, etc - read one of his own poems… about their team.

A film and multimedia approach to stir debate and reflections. On the planet today, one family out of four  includes an handicapped person...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Madmundo.tv - Omar: Do you accept my "handicap"?</title>
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			<title>01. Do you accept my "handicap"?</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Omar Koussih will soon be 19. He thinks and – with the help of a special mouse with which he operates the keyboard on the computer screen - writes. Beautifully. Poems (one of them is in the annex), letters, and emails with which he tries to highlight his situation and the fate of the 500 million disabled people around the world.

Since he was born in Rabat, Morocco, he has been suffering from spinal amyotrophy, a muscular disease. At one point, Omar’s parents thought their son would not live beyond adolescence, through lack of appropriate medical treatment. His mother, Faouzia, wanted him to have a normal education. She had no other choice than to quit her job as a civil servant and create a primary school herself, as it was the only way that Omar could be admitted to school…But after primary school. Omar had no other choice than distance learning. His mother has always stood by his side hour by hour to help him.<br /><a href="http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/do-you-accept-my-handicap">Watch the video</a>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>04. Michel Salines with Omar: "We need a real revolution"</title>
			<description><![CDATA[In France a new law was voted in by Parliament in 2005 after a lot of lobbying from different groups. But the battle is not yet won... Michel Salines, the vice-president of the APAJH (French acronym for the Association of Young and Adult Disabled People), says to Omar that each law is a “small victory”. More specifically, this law gives to every parent the right to register its disabled child at a neighbouring school.

“It still has to be implemented so that all children will be accepted in French state schools. Human resources are lacking but organizations like ours fight to see that the law is implemented.”

Created in 1962, APAHJ has 25,000 members and a staff of 13,850. It takes care of disabled people in around 600 establishments. It aims at promoting the dignity and citizenship of every disabled person and equality of access to several rights (right to go to school, to professional life, to social & cultural life…)

www.apajh.org<br /><a href="http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/michel-salines-with-omar-we-need-a-real-revolution">Watch the video</a>]]></description>
			<category>Disability</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/michel-salines-with-omar-we-need-a-real-revolution</link>
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			<title>02. "Luckily, my family was very united"</title>
			<description><![CDATA[What happens in the life of a family when arises the one of a "disabled" child? How to react? What do doctors say when confronted with the first signals?  Are friends and relatives able to be around as simply as they can?

For Omar's parents, Faouziah and Abderrahim Koussih, it is their family's unity which was key all along Omar's childhood...<br /><a href="http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/luckily-my-family-was-very-united">Watch the video</a>]]></description>
			<category>Disability</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>03. At the Barça, Henry, Eto'o, Touré read out from Omar's poem</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Everything, in Omar's bedroom in Rabat, represents the Barcelona Football Club. Posters, curtains, bed covers represent the players or the emblemas of the Barça.

Aside from poetry which is on Omar's mind, a dream of him has always been to attend a game. Not on TV, not on the Internet but in the Nou Camp Stadium itself. Thanks to friends from Catalunya - namely to Joan Ubeda - we have been able to realize that dream.

What was the score? 6-0 for the Barça against Valladolid. But a real surprise came when players like Thierry Henry, Samuel Eto'o and Yahia Touré accepted to read out from one of Omar's poem specially written for this occasion.  Other players, who do not speak french, stopped by...

Rather than talk about it, let's watch a unique video!<br /><a href="http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/at-the-barca-henry-eto-o-toure-read-out-from-omar-s-poem">Watch the video</a>]]></description>
			<category>Disability</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 14:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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