Last Saturday, April 13, the first workshop 'People with disabilities: stories of overcoming. Interdisciplinary reflection: Humanities andfaith', organized by the students of the School of Philosophy and Letters . The purpose of this workshop was to deepen on disability with the testimony of three people who have overcome their disability.

The sessions, which took place at classroom 35 of Central Building, counted with the presence of experts such as Javier Sesé, Professor of Spiritual Theology at School of Theology, but also with testimonies of people who know the meaning of pain and disability as Marce Calderón, blind professional; Luis de Moya, doctor with tetraplegia; and Rosa Sánchez, mother of a child with Dravet syndrome.

The first to speak at workshop was Javier Sesé who spoke of his experience as the brother of a person with disabilities and stressed that "he always saw in the disabled a capacity for love, joy and simplicity that he sometimes missed in others". Likewise, as Professor of Theology, he deepened the Christian faith about the meaning of pain and the dignity of the sick and children.

Afterwards, a video of Luis de Moya was shown -since in the end he could not attend-, in which the priest tells his experience as a quadriplegic, while explaining that he can neither "jump nor leap" as animals do, but "he can do what a human being does: that is to say, have the capacity to love".                                                       

She was followed by Marce Calderón, blind since the age of 20, who has never given up her fight. "I cried a lot when I was warned that my disease would be degenerative until I lost my sight, but today all the people who visit meeting ask me why I am always so happy," she explained. Because, as was reflected at the end, "You don't need to see to be happy", which was the degree scroll of his speech.

Finally, Rosa Sánchez, mother of a son with Dravet syndrome (epileptic seizures, hyperactivity, attention deficit, cognitive delay and autism), told how she and her husband faced her son's illness, how she was angry with God when she found out what he had and how she realized that "if she was angry with God, God had to exist". Now with her husband they take turns keeping watch every night in case their son has seizures; the phrase they both share is "if our son is fine, we are fine."

After the sessions, Manuel Ruiz Fuster, one of the attendees, explained: "I was moved by the experience of the mother with Dravet syndrome, how she valued everything she had despite her son's suffering. I asked myself: does something like this have to happen to me for me to value my life?". A generalized optimistic feeling that leaves a good taste in the mouth in the first edition of these conference.