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Serbia and Montenegro
| Macedonia | Bosnia
and Herzegovina | Albania | Kosovo
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Name of the organization |
Project |
| Belgrade |
“Valid-In” |
Prejudices and fears! Mere stories!
- To raise positive public awareness about abilities
of people with disabilities, a documentary was filmed
presenting 3 active and fully integrated people with
disabilities. The movie has been shown in movie theatres
and on the national TV on International Day of People
with disabilities (3rd of December). |
| Bijelo Polje |
Association of parents of children
and young people with special needs |
Support to the Day care centre -
In order to support alternative service providers
for children with disabilities, the project supported
the Association in the early phase of establishing
the first day care centre in Montenegro, which will
hopefully become, after this pilot phase, a part of
the official social care system - supported by government
through Ministry or local authorities. The support
has been provided through the selection of staff,
selection of 14 children/beneficiaries of the centre,
trainings, consultancies, study visits, etc. |
| Leskovac |
Centar Ziveti Uspravno - Leskovac |
The Rights of people with disabilities
are human rights - To raise awareness of local community
about the situation of people with disabilities, 3
workshops gathering 43 people working in the fields
of medicine, education, social care and other have
been organised. A survey conducted among the participants
at the end of the workshops showed an effective increase
in the level of awareness. |
| Sombor |
Association of Distrophics of West
Backa District |
Do I have the right to...? To promote
basic human rights of people with disabilities and
to indicate the barriers encountered in all public
services, a broad awareness raising campaign on disability
issues, including production and distribution of awareness
raising materials, media coverage, public events and
tribunes, have been organised. |
| Svrljig |
SIZIIF, Svrljiska Invalidska Zajednica
za Integraciju Invalida i Filozofiranje |
Perfectum Mobile - To remove architectural
barriers in the town of Svrljig, 25 adapted pavements
and 14 ramps have been built, facilitating access
to different public buildings like church, health
centre, Post office, Internet Café, Cultural
centre, primary and secondary schools, supermarkets,
restaurants, etc. To provide media coverage of project:
press releases, TV broadcasts and public opinion survey
have been organised. |
| Zajecar |
Inter-district organization of the
multiple sclerosis |
Mutual - The main objective was to
increase the level of participation of members in
the association's activities which should lead to
the realisation of organization’s goals and
improvement of work performance as well as decrease
in social isolation. A Team of 12 members of Association
have been educated for peer counselling and are visiting
all members of Association in the region, in order
to increase their motivation and activism as well
their social participation. Promotion materials, booklets,
leaflets and comics, have been produced too. |
| Zajecar |
Intercommunal Organisation of Deaf
and Partially Deaf People Zajecar |
World of Silence - To enable people
with hearing impairments to get information and services
in public institutions, a basic sign language course
for 25 civil servants has been provided, 3 hours per
week, over a period of 10 weeks, with an exam at the
end. To raise awareness about lives of people with
hearing impairment and organisation’s activities,
2 TV-reportages have been produced, 1500 flyers and
500 posters have been distributed in the community
by members of the organisation. |
| Zrenjanin |
Association of Blind Zrenjanin |
VISION SSZ -Education of members
of Association to use computers. The visual impairment
is overcame by the screen reader software "An-reader".
5 members were trained and will be able to train other
blind people. The whole process and results of the
project were followed by media and broadcasted regularly
on the radio, newspapers and website. In addition,
the tribune with more than 50 participants from local
community was organised. |
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Name of the organization |
Project |
| Negotino |
Center for helping persons with mental
handicap- message negotino - |
Continuation of the work of the day
care center in Negotino - The day care centre in Negotino
provides alternative services to people with mental
disability. The project supports the continuation
of centre’s activities, such as daily care and
registration of people with moderate and severe intellectual
disability or education and rehabilitation for autonomous
life. The day care centre has 15 persons-adolescents
users. |
| Prilep |
Regional handikap center |
"Equal opportunities for everyone"
To improve the prospects for employment of people
with disabilities and to put the emphasis on their
rights, the project set the following objectives:
on one hand to raise the awareness of people with
disabilities on employment protection, role of appropriate
institutions and the existing law on employment of
persons with disability, and on the other hand to
raise awareness of the business sector in the region
(Prilep, Krushevo & M. Brod) on this issue and
also on the benefits of establishing companies for
employing persons with disabilities. A wide lobbying
campaign accompanied the project towards employment
of people with disabilities based on the existing
legal regulation. |
| Skopje |
Association of students with special
educational needs |
Informative service for students
with disabilities at university - The project supports
education of students with disabilities at the University.
To provide a supportive infrastructure, the Association
has developed an information center where students
have access to appropriate information and therefore
ti increase the odds of achieving the university education
and equal opportunities like any other student.. The
center also facilitates communication between students
with disabilities and professors. At the same time,
the association conducted campaigns to raise awareness
of the general public about capacities and needs of
students with disabilities. |
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Name of the organization |
Project |
| Bihac |
Association "Joy of socializing
among parents, children and friends of children with
special needs" |
Improving living conditions of children
with special needs - To improve the relationship between
children with special needs and their parents, the
project has developed contacts between parents and
professionals in the community. A team of volunteers
working with children has been created. In the frame
of the inclusive program that started in 2004 in Bosnia
and Herzegovina, the work of teachers with children
with special needs has also improved. |
| Bijeljina |
Association of the deaf and hard
of hearing people of bijeljina region |
Sign language training for hearing
people - In order to achieve better understanding
among professionals employed in the Association with
deaf and hard of hearing people, a sign language course
has been organized. |
| Tuzla |
The association of the blind citizens
of the region of Tuzla |
International festival of musical
and literary creative work of the blind people from
the countries of FRY - With the aim of raising awareness
on abilities of people with disabilities and in order
to rebuild the network of blind people Associations
from all countries in the region, a festival of music
and literary work has been organised. More than 80
blind people from the whole region participated and
performed on stage. The festival was the first of
this kind and has the aspirations to become an annual
event. A roundtable has also been organised with the
topic “Poetry and promotion of equal opportunities
for Blind and visually impaired people". |
| Zenica |
Association of paraplegics and patients
of infantile palsy |
Translation and publishing of the
book “Yes you can”, under copyright licence
of PVA (paralysed veterans of America) - , a guide
for self-care of persons with spinal cord injury.
This book is considered to be the best source of information
for paraplegics and with this project it was planned
to print and distribute free of charge some 1,000
copies of it. |
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Name of the organization |
Project |
| Tirana |
Association of women with disabilities |
Promotion of Human Rights for women
with disabilities - Women with disabilities living
in the suburb of Tirana, in a very poor and problematic
neighbourhood, face strong discrimination and are
subjects to regular acts of violence. By providing
them with 15 days of training, the project aimed at
raising awareness about women’s rights and to
protect their dignity as human beings. Initially planned
to reach some 20 women, but due to the great interest,
some 50 women participated in the project. |
| Tirana |
Parents of children with learning
disability |
Access to education for children
with disabilities -The project advocates for inclusive
education of children with disabilities into mainstream
schools, among the different stakeholders in the community:
parents of children with and without disabilities,
teachers and authorities. Along with the raising of
awareness, a process of identification of children
with disabilities has taken place, as well as development
of an individual plan for each one of them. |
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UN administered province of Kosovo |
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Name of the organization |
Project |
| Gracanica |
OON |
Hand made products - To encourage self
employment and sustainable life, increase creativity,
psycho-social abilities, continuity of traditional crafts
and promotion of multi-ethnicity, girls and women from
13 to 23 years of age, from different ethnic groups
have received vocational training in knitting, sewing,
embroidery and pottery. An exhibition and selling of
products has been organised. The workshops also provided
opportunities for socialisation among the participants. |
| Kline |
Handikos |
Close by the community - To break the
social exclusion of people with disabilities and particularly
of children with disabilities, to increase number of
members registered and to develop artistic capacities;
painting, drawing, knitting courses have been organised.
The exhibition which followed and an interview with
participants was broadcasted on national TV. |
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