Description
Initiatives targeting free time activities spent together by disabled and healthy society have no history in Hungary, partly because disabled people’s isolated lifestyle. The campaign’s short term goal is to create opportunity for disabled people to engage into everyday life of local communities, as well as awareness raising of the healthy society. On the long term the goal is to initiate a new form of charity and to create a network of NGOs that are able to facilitate social inclusion of disabled people on the local level. The campaign consists of collection, management and realization of free time experiences offered by healthy persons / organizations to disabled people. As a result, direct encounters and informal activities of healthy and disabled people contribute to inclusion of the latter and to naturalization of new approaches of charity activities. The campaign helps disabled people to receive experiences that otherwise would not be available for them; also, it helps healthy people to gain direct, real experiences about disabilities free from prejudices. These two benefits strengthen each other and contribute to development of local communities.
Summary of project results
The program sought to contribute to the inclusion of disabled people. With the coordination of Revita Foundation, 11 NGOs joint as local coordinators countrywide. They were responsible for the collection, marketing and management of experiences among disabled people and in the healthy society, and were available for support when it was needed from the side of donors or recipients. More than 400 disabled people took part in an experience, and more than 100 healthy persons / organizations joint the program and offered free time activities. Eight Experience Clubs have been realized to share thoughts and experiences among healthy and disabled people. The program made possible for disabled people to take part in experiences that otherwise would not have been available for them; also, it helped healthy people to gain direct, real experiences about disabilities free from prejudices. The program’s main impacts is the setting up of a new form of charity, and the networking of NGOs which facilitate social inclusion of disabled people on the local level.
Summary of bilateral results