Together for acceptance – for the life without disadvantages

Project facts

Project promoter:
Association for help mentally disabled people in Petrzalka, Working - socialising centre IMPULZ
Project Number:
SK10-0034
Target groups
Disabled
Status:
Completed
Initial project cost:
€79,962
Final project cost:
€79,962
From EEA Grants:
€ 71,966
The project is carried out in:
Bratislavský kraj

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Description

Social inclusion of mentally disabled people is still big challenge in Slovakia. ZPMP is umbrella NGO associate more than 40 local initiatives that are providing of variety social services. Main goal of this project is to enable peer-learning and networking between majority population and mentally disabled people. Mentally disabled people will improve or gain practical skills needed for their everyday life and majority representatives will deepen their personal development, inspiration, sensitivity and sense for well doing. Main project outputs are: development skills of practical life and working skills of the clients, sensitized public by campaign, 30% raising of sales revenue from the workshops. Direct beneficiaries are clients of Working-socialising centre IMPULZ, clients of other 8 protected workshops in Bratislava region and possible new corporation open for cooperation (50 entities, 80 new working possibilities for clients).

Summary of project results

Social inclusion of mentally disabled people is still big challenge in Slovakia. ZPMP is umbrella NGO associate more than 40 local initiatives that are providing variety of social services. The main goal of this project was to enable peer-learning and networking between majority population and mentally disabled people. Mentally disabled people improved and gained practical skills needed for their everyday life and majority representatives were deepen their personal development, inspiration, sensitivity and sense for well doing. Main project outputs were: development skills of practical life and working skills of the 54 clients, sensitization of the public by campaign to 1 150 and more people, 30% raising of sales revenue from the workshops. Direct beneficiaries were clients of Working-socialising centre IMPULZ, clients of other 11 (8) protected workshops in Bratislava region and possible new corporation open for cooperation (50 entities, 100 (80) new working possibilities for clients). They prepared a new catalogue of offered products, video trainings that they offer to organizations with a similar target group and they prepared a cookbook of macrobiotics food (165 pieces of printed version and 200 pieces on DVD) for the same target group.

Summary of bilateral results