Description
Every year in Latvia more than 11 thousand new oncology patients are registered, but they have no access to psycho-social rehabilitation services. Therefore, the project will seek to ensure that oncology patients are included as the psychosocial rehabilitation recipients of state-funded services. The goal of this project is to encourage oncology patients and their relatives to be active and informed about involvement possibilities in community activities, raising civic awareness, ensuring participation in democracy and civic processes in national and regional policy levels. The Project will help promote health and social policy defending interests of patients with chronic diseases and their relatives,an also provide awareness and knowledge, eliminate stereotypes causing both–human rights restrictions and discrimination towards oncology patients. The main beneficiaries of the project are oncology patients and their relatives.
Summary of project results
The project "Support to patients' association" Dzivibas Koks " operation of oncological patients and their relatives civic awareness formation-" participation double power "within society" Dzivibas Koks” has developed its potential, by actively participating in advocacy, as well as in various activities of Latvian NGOs and Europe, thus emphasising the oncological patients (chronic patients) and their relatives civil interests and involvement in decision-making. As well as promoting patient self-awareness and involvement on local, national and European level. It is also important that the association strategically cooperated not only with health care and patient organisations, but also with the unrelated industries, thus demonstrating that the health and social care essentially affects everyone. Therefore, it is accented. The project has provided more than 100 support group sessions in which more than 1,500 people participated, as it is also important that during the project, projects and applications for both the issue of information material and psycho-social rehabilitation center have been prepared in accordance. During the project implementation through a variety of activities, it has attracted more than 200 000 EUR in donations. The association as a whole has developed its activities and prepared a strategy for further development.
Summary of bilateral results