Showbiz For one time we get their back for all to see on Instagram instead of their well-known head. Many well-known Flemish people were behind the action #ikwachtmee, the care for people with a disability faster. Among them also radiopresentatrice Eva De Roo (31), which itself has a half-brother with a disability.
Emiel (28), the youngest brother of StuBru-presenter Eva De Roo, has a mental disability and was for three years on the waiting list for he financial assistance received from the government. “It was a very frustrating period of your life ‘on hold’ and you do not know how long the dreams shall be postponed. And that while my other brother and I at the dorm went, and on our own legs went. Emiel wanted that, too,” she says.
less than 18.521 people are currently on a waiting list for specialist assistance. A process that, on average, 5 years. “Emiel has ‘chance’, say my parents. But three years is a long time, hey”, says Eva. “My parents have even thought to have something to start yourself a home to search for Emil where he independently could live, and then all of the guidance and medical care to be financed with a spaghettislag.”
Eva was for many years a leader in Aqaba, a scoutsgroep for people with a disability. There also collided with them on the issues. “I saw that young people are already on their 16th started stressing about where they would go to after their school years.”
1.6 billion
at the end of the Emiel goedgekomen. “He now lives alone and is independent. He can invite us, himself was doing, and so on. But it is all he will get the right guidance and help. He is very happy,” says Eva. “But there are nearly 20,000 – ridiculous – other people who do still need help. In total, there is € 1.6 billion to people from the waiting list to get in. I want to be very friendly to the next Flemish government will ask for half of that budget, so that the pressing of people already forward to be helped,” she explains. Emiel itself already has a plan how it should happen. “He thinks that the players half of their salary to give,” laughs Eva.
More info about the action on www.ikwachtmee.be
