Why today many people will wear two socks of different colors?

Since March 21, 2012, the World Day of Down Syndrome, date chosen by the United Nations, is celebrated in general badembly on December 19, 2011.

"I wear them differently because we are the same." The theme of this year's campaign for World Down Syndrome Day is to use two socks of different colors to raise awareness of the dignity of people with intellectual disabilities. Families and institutions seek to eliminate prejudices with slogans such as "My son can too".

On World Down Syndrome Day, a type of disability explained by the existence of an extra chromosome in pair 21, we will try to achieve the goal that "all people with Down syndrome should be able to a full life, on an equal footing with others, as in other aspects of society, "says the UN on its website.

To explain the existence of the extra chromosome, the Favaloro Foundation presented a visual representation of a karyotype card or a chromosomal map, where each has some form that looks like an average, and that Is where the campaign comes from. "The pair 21, which is not such but a group of three chromosomes, is where Trisomy 21 or Down syndrome occurs," says the foundation next to the picture. .

"We invite you to wear a different pair of socks to celebrate diversity," they said during the campaign.

In addition, a group of parents of people with Down syndrome put together an emotional video that went viral. They chose ten prejudices among people with the syndrome and told their stories and examples of life. "Down syndrome is not what I am, what I have," is the slogan of the video.

"My son can too," was the phrase that parents chose to close the video. Aware of the damage their children are struggling to tear down, everyone will wear socks of different colors to fight for integration.

Source: Cienradios