Thanks to a partnership with the Les Petits Rois Foundation, eight young adults with intellectual disabilities have been working with the Urgences-Santé team over the past three weeks.
“They have a more pronounced impairment. We have more pronounced cases. So they need a framework to be able to perform certain tasks and to learn,” the president and founder of the Les Petits Rois Foundation, Vânia Aguiar, told TVA Nouvelles.
For 21 years now, ex-model Vânia Aguiar has been working hard to integrate these diverse people into society.
“Just getting them out of their homes, into a place, and feeling proud is like giving back to society everything that society has given them,” she says.
Urgences-santé de Montréal has decided to raise a hand to welcome Little Kings.
“We are very proud of this partnership,” said Urgences Santé spokesman Jean-Pierre Rouleau. “For example, when a vehicle returns home after a shift, that vehicle needs to be reconciled. So we have a team of support staff, attendants who take care of this task, who clean the vehicle and make sure everything is compliant.
Les Petits Rois have the mission to prepare some of the paramedics’ equipment.
“They work closely with all Urgences-santé employees, eat with us, share the cafeteria and are therefore already integrated,” explains Mr. Rouleau.
A total of one hundred young adults like her work in Montreal businesses.
“What I sincerely hope is that all of Quebec’s businesses can open their doors to our Little Kings to give our Little Kings a chance to become someone,” says Vânia Aguiar.
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