Young Minds With No Obstacles

We do not have obstacles, obstacles are being put in front of us: Despite all the technological, scientific, ideologic improvements and developments have taken place so far and despite the fact that in all areas we have come a long way both in our country and in the world. The perception of ‘being disabled’ and the preconceptions towards the disabled haven’t been able to demolished completely or successfully changed yet. These preconceptions are surfacing themselves as a hindering factor in every area of a disabled person’s life. Prejudice induced behavior of alienation and exclusion of the disabled in social life, education and business life has been consistently experienced. This is causing psychological harm to the people with disabilities and is leaving these people inadequate since the equal opportunities and necessary facilities are not offered. Employment is the area in which the disabled are commonly present. However, as it is mentioned before, the prejudice surfaces itself here, as well. Due to the perception of disabled people’s lack of capacity in performing certain jobs, many technological, logistical and other opportunities that are given to other employees are not provided to them. Therefore, the disabled feels inadequate not because of their own disability but because the opportunities are not given to them in the first place. In order to build awareness, and explain that disabled people can perform their jobs successfully once today’s suitable accesibilities and implementations are provided to them, we want to run a project with our external partners who already worked on advanced projects related to this area. We are looking for partners especially from France, Germany and Albania, but whoever is interested in this topic are also welcome. In this project: The partner countries will be welcomed in our country’s capital and they will present about the related work done and how things work in their country. Also, their presentations will be supported by statistical or legal data and documents as much as possible. The situation in our country will be explained by presentations and trips to several instutitions. This way, hopefully a course of action will be determined together in terms of what can be done better.