According to the National Council for the Integration of People with Disabilities, "about one and a half million people live in Peru with some kind of disability". According to the survey of the Institute of Statistics, "more than 5% of the population has some limitations in moving, seeing, feeling, understanding, communicating with others, or communicating."

The "CETPRO Santo Domingo Savio" (SDS) is located at the pioneering center of the Salesians in Peru, inaugurated December 8, 1891. The center hosts many activities: the CETPRO, for its part, houses hundreds of young people; a family home for teenagers; and an oratory that welcomes boys and girls, children and young people that each week are in search of animation in the style of Don Bosco.

The Don Bosco Foundation of Peru, in co-operation with Rimac's CETPRO SDS, and with the "Compartir" (Share) campaign of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference, forms and trains young people with special educational needs.

Through this campaign, several young people with sensory disabilities – deaf and dumb - benefit and are being successfully trained in screen printing and tailoring laboratories.

Similarly, in co-ordination with specialists of the Service of Support and Consultation for the Care of Special Educational Needs (SAANEE), a seminar was organized for all students of CETPRO SDS to raise the students' awareness of the great efforts that their disadvantaged peers, along with their families, face and overcome to achieve their goals.

Hence, all CETPRO SDS students have been invited to show respect, tolerance and willingness to help peers who have different skills, and indeed to collaborate with them.

"Real disability is not that of the person who has it," wrote journalist Carla García, "but of that society that does not know how to include them."

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