Under the slogan “For Integration from and for the Community,” during the meeting, active through Thursday, October 10, the delegates will also discuss the implementation of the Association’s organizational strategy for the 2020-2024 period.

The Congress’ academic program being held at the Havana’s Conference Center includes work in commissions to analyze the latest breakthroughs of the Association, which was founded on March 14, 1980.

The Cuban Association of People with Physical-Motor Disabilities, originally the Cuban Association of People with Physical and Motor Limitations (ACLIFIM), is a national and permanent non-profit organization, with a legal personality. It consists of people with physical-motor disabilities, both Cubans and foreigners permanently residing in Cuba.

As reported by its website, this national institution brings together more than 80,000 people in 15 provinces, 168 municipalities, and 1,884 grass-roots areas.

ACLIFIM is part of the Ibero-American Network of Persons Living with Physical Disabilities and its member organizations, the Latin American Network of Non-Governmental Organizations of Persons with Disabilities and their Families (RIADIS), where it chairs the region of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, and has special consultative status in ECOSOC.

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