UM OLHAR SOBRE A FRATERNIDADE CRISTÃ DE PESSOAS COM DEFICIÊNCIA (FCD): Sua trajetória em direção à Inclusão das Pessoas com Deficiência

• Autor(a) principal: SILVA, VERA LUCI MACHADO PRATES DA
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da METODISTA
• Texto Completo: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/1741
• topic: Pessoa com Deficiência; Inclusão; Dignidade Humana; Empoderamento; Fraternidade; Disabled People; Inclusion; Human Dignity; Empowerment; Fraternity; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

The Intercontinental Christian Fraternity of People With Disabilities (ICFPD – in Brazil Christian Fraternity of People With Disabilities, initials FCD) is a movement by Father Henri François that began in France during the forties. Its motto is “rise and walk with me”. Father François, suffering poor health and living in a war-torn society, began to visit sick and disabled people. Soon he needed help and challenged the sick and disabled people themselves to engage in this mission. His challenge was answered, and the movement was named “Catholic Brotherhood of the Infirm”. It spread through France and all of Europe, coming around the sixties to Latin America. In 1972, it comes to Brazil, first to São Leopoldo (South of Brazil) and then to Recife (Northeast). It is now spread through all the country. Our research aimed at surveying the FCD trajectory and trying to discover its contributions to the inclusion of disabled people in Brazilian society. To this end, we employed these resources: testimonies, bibliography, participant observation and pictures. This research structures itself from the perspective of the gaze: who looks (who am I)? What do I need to see? Which gaze do I employ? What do I see? Our Introduction tries to present the goals of this research, as well as presenting the gazer – the biography of the researcher and her involvement with the subject. Through experience and reflection, subjects are evidenced and offer the grounds for FCD to root and develop itself. The first chapter discusses subjects such as disability, integration, exclusion – inclusion in order to weave together a setting that serves as a background for the birth and development of FCD. When we gaze at something or someone, even though we wear no glasses nor use any magnifying glasses, we employ conscious or unconscious tools that will dictate what we see or not. This is why, in academic research, it is necessary to make explicit the type of gaze – which lens we are using – to observe and look for research results. Chapter Two presents our theoretical framework, introducing subjects that offer us tools to analyze FCD’s operations, such as: Social Movements, Theology of Liberation and Basic Ecclesial Communities. The third chapter sets down FCD’s trajectory employing available resources: testimonies, pictures, bibliography and life stories. Chapter Four raises the important points this gaze allowed us to see: FCD’s contributions to people’s lives, helping them to take hold of their own lives. It also makes them reach out towards others, allowing engagement in social movements and in the struggle to include disabled people. Lastly, we offer considerations that indicate the importance of the FCD. We also reflect upon what we found along the way, emphasizing the challenges we face in our contemporary context.