Geel
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Geel is a city in the north- east of Belgium.
History
1944 was the battle of Geel Geel one of the heaviest fighting during the liberation of Belgium instead.
Integrative model of life
In Geel people find with intellectual disabilities or mental illness receiving in foster care. The people that work in the bicycle repair shop, in the nursery, in the bindery or go every day to the hospital for occupational therapy. By accommodating a family of spiritual neglect and hospitalism to be prevented.
Background
For centuries were people with mental health problems to Geel, because that is where a relic of Saint Dymphna was, who was reputed healing powers. Some pilgrims preferred to settle on the spot, instead of returning to the lunatic asylums and almshouses. Gradually, the population Geels accustomed to their presence and took care of them.
Present and future of the integrative model of life
Lately, fewer and fewer people come to Geel, because the modern psychiatric drugs enable them to live independently. Ever since it became known that some farmers forced them to hard labor, see nurses with the families after things. The Belgian government support the foster families through monthly 400 euros. However, family care is only for those people in question are not violent and whose symptoms can be reduced by medication.
In the future, the residents want to open their doors to children with mental health problems.
Integrative models of life in other states
Following the example of Geeler model similar institutions were founded in France, in Switzerland and in Germany. There is, for example, in the Evangelische Stiftung Hamburg Alster village, where people live together with and without intellectual disabilities in a village. In Romania there are 18 plus the project, a kind of assisted living facility for adults with disabilities as well as a project on the type of Alsterdorfer institutions.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Jean -Pierre Wils (* 1957), theologian and ethicist
- Herman Frison ( b. 1961 ), cyclist
- Ludo Dierckxsens ( b. 1964 ), cyclist
- Kathleen Aerts (born 1978 ), singer, ex- member of the group K3 ( band )
- Rob Peeters ( born 1985 ), cyclocross riders
Twinning
There are twinned with Tydavnet in Ireland and Xanten in Germany. Both twinning thereby justify to the legends of Dymphna and Gerebernus and their connection to the three villages.