Advocacy and rights
APAE Aracaju
Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil
Sergipe chapter of the APAE network, founded in 1970, serving around 600 people with intellectual and multiple disabilities across 33 municipalities and running an explicit self-advocacy (autodefensoria) programme.
- Focus
- Intellectual disability, Down syndrome
- Leadership
- Mixed leadership
- Where
- In person
- Languages
- Portuguese
- Since
- 1970
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Verified 2026-09-09 from apaearacaju.org.br. Added 2026-09-09 by the editorial team.
Note: Site explicitly names an Autodefensoria strengthening self-advocates' protagonism, so marked mixed leadership rather than purely ally-led.
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