Yesterday morning, Pablo, the young man with functional diversity who has been longing to study gardening for three years, left home, heading for his summer activities convinced that the meeting would go well. “He was convinced that everything would go well,” says his mother, Carmen Ortuzar, minutes after learning that her son was right. “He knew he had the meeting and he told me not to worry, that everything would go well,” she says. An optimism totally contrary to what his mother felt. “I didn’t trust anything. After everything we’ve been through, how could I?” continues Carmen, who recalls that she has been receiving one refusal after another for the last three years to allow Pablo to enroll in basic vocational training in gardening.
Pablo’s mother feared another rejection
She was so convinced that the answer would be negative that yesterday she preferred to stay at home, waiting for Lola Penín, president of the Pitiusa Association for Educational and Social Inclusion (Apies), to call her to inform her of the resolution. “Last time, I left the meeting in a terrible state, shattered. I didn’t even feel like a person”, explains the mother to justify why she had been so clear, for days, that she was not going to be present at the meeting in which the Conselleria informed them of the resolution. “In the end it has been good news,” she stresses. Saying it more to herself, as if to convince herself, than to others.
When Penín came out, excited, waving the document in which it is clear that Pablo will be able to study gardening, she still did not know what had happened. Inside the delegation there is hardly any coverage and the conversation was cut off. “She didn’t understand what I said. She must be biting her nails and climbing the walls”, jokes Penín while she calls Ortuzar, with the loudspeaker, on the sidewalk, so that the media can hear her. “I don’t believe it!” the mother exclaims. “You can believe it now, you’ve made it,” says the president of the association. “We’ve done it,” Ortuzar says, thanking all those who have accompanied her in this struggle. “Now you will have to buy them all a drink”, jokes Penín, a suggestion that the mother welcomes with pleasure.
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