Dear individuals, companions and colleagues,

I hope you are all healthy.

We are living an awfully exceptional times and it seems that this will go on for numerous weeks
onwards. The news we hear day by day are discouraging as the Coronavirus is spreading further
and further and closing businesses, quieting the roads of our cities and locking us all into our
homes or into “care institutions”. What is happening presently around the entire world is
something we all have inconvenience understanding and it challenges our governments to act in
ways that have not been attempted some time recently. We all have inconvenience understanding
everything that's going on, but for individuals with mental incapacities it is indeed more
challenging. In this troublesome time, we attempted to support them by creating and collecting a
high number of assets or resources around the Coronavirus in easy-to-read and in several
languages.
Tragically, the Coronavirus crisis created disturbing circumstances in numerous countries. Not as
it were by closing individuals with mental incapacities inside the institutions or their own homes
and clearing out them in isolation from everything, but also by taking off numerous families
without support. Many organizations giving support to individuals with incapacities and families
are moreover struggling for fundamental defensive equipment, that would keep all those
involved secure. As the capacity of wellbeing care in connection with the pandemic appears to be
inadequately in most of the countries there's also the address of priority in wellbeing care. I have
listened a few stressing news of circumstances where individuals with mental inabilities have
been categorized as a group of individuals which would not get any seriously care at all. This
kind of unsatisfactory discrimination has been called out by our individuals and numerous other
individuals and associations; equal esteem of all individuals must be the premise of any
discourse.
This emergency has made a circumstance where no one appears to know what to anticipate. We
are all presently confined from living a typical life and we get day by day unused rules from our
governments. In this situation we simply have to be do as told. The circumstance is modern to
everybody. Again, we must be reminding governments and educate that international traditions
just like the UN CRPD still apply and human rights need to be respected.