Episode description

Catia Malaquias is a lawyer, board director and mother of three young children.  Catia works tirelessly progressing human rights and inclusion of people with disability. I think this quote sums Catia up perfectly.  “We need to take every opportunity to disrupt our culture’s mindset of exclusion of people with disability, which is so harmful.  When you think about the hierarchy of human need, belonging has to be right up there and belonging is what historically has been denied to disabled people, though exclusion, segregation and institutionalisation.  I feel that it is particularly important to foster in children an attitude of respect for human diversity and the rights and inclusion of people with disability.”