Independent Living Center for disabled people

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Independent Living Center for disabled people

Summary

This project gives disabled people a chance to live independently. They recieve information about rights, participate in educational programs and meet with career advisors to live on their own.

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

5.5 mln people in Poland have some kind of disability (1/7 of society). Most of them stay at homes all their lives without the possibility of independence. We work with them for equal opportunity in society and self-respect. We provide necessary information, knowledge and skills to live and work in an open society: going to the neighborhood school, working in jobs that are in line with their education and abilities and starting families on they own.

Activities

Providing information to more than 8000 people per year via telephone, internet, in person, website (www.niepelnosprawni.info), leading courses, publishing information publication, preparing social campaigns (in radio, TV, newspapers), etc.

Funding Information

This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Disabled people elicitation and building wide tolerance: 5% decrease of level of unemployment in 3 years time; increase amount of clients to 20 000 per year, 30% increase of level of tolerance to disable people in polish society.

Project Message

I started the Center because I found the experience of going through my own disability very painful. We deliver the most important thing - information and hope for a better life.
- Piotr Pawlowski, President of Friends of Integration Association