Identidades in English No 3, September 2014 | Page 18

Interviewer: Haven’t you had the possibility of
taking her to some school or some rehabilitation
center?
YSQ: No, only physical therapy and exercises at
the polyclinic. That’s it.
Interviewer: And, as a handicapped person,
hasn’t she been seen to see what she needs, like a
wheel chair or something?
YSQ: I’m in the middle of the wheel chair thing,
and they tell me they don’t have any for kids.
They check her out, but give her no real attention.
And they tell you: “When something comes
in”…but nothing ever comes in. I need disposable
diapers so I can take her to her appointments, because she goes to the bathroom on herself. I have
to buy them on the outside. The social worker
says: “when the shipment arrives”…but those are
just words, because it never comes.
Interviewer: Did you receive a visit by the Psycho-Social Reviewer who sees and registers folks
who are handicapped and have problems?

YSQ: No. No one came here.
Interviewer: Do you work?
YSQ: No. I can’t work because of my daughter.
Interviewer: What money do you receive as a
mother?
YSQ: I get 200 pesos ($8.30 US dollar) a month.
With that, I have to go to the official store and buy
food, because if I don’t, they would take away my
allotment.
*Vice President, Progressive Arc Party (PARP)
National Vice Coordinator, Citizens’ Committee
for Racial Integration (CIR)
Cuban Representative, IDENTIDADES

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