The struggle for dignity surpasses often the very struggle for existence. Feeling useful preserved with self-esteem, quality of life improves considerably raising the prospect of survival.

The need to participate productively in society is inherent characteristic of human nature. Thus, even though patients are possessed of a comfortable economic situation, need activities that allow them to sense of social sharing. Yet we know that in most transplant patients do not have an economic condition even reasonable.

Unemployed, a good portion of that quota suffers the hardships of those who need the large sum needed to maintain the costly treatment before and after the transplant.

To minimize these problems, the Association of Transplanted Patients Bahia (ATX-BA) was looking for alternative occupational and income generation with a large component of social mobilization and organization of the members and their families.

The Project “ART FOR LIFE” is to insert the transplanted patient in the labor market through vocational training course taught by painting on cloth textile artist creuza FRANCISCA.

In a second step the painting goes for printing on fabrics, shirts and other products to be sold, guaranteeing jobs and income for them and their families.

You need to educate society about the importance of respect and appropriate support to individuals with special needs to preserve their dignity and survival, because transplantation is a medical procedure that gives social quality of LIFE and LIFE, but only works with the support of all society. Marcia Chaves ATX-BA