The Hand in Hand Foundation has been working since 1993 for a tolerant society in which the individuals with disabilities can live with dignity. Our primary task is to promote the cause of the people with disability, especially the ones who live with mental disability and the most disadvantaged backgrounds as well as the ones living with multiple disabilities. We have contact with the disabled people via their environment, directly and indirectly, in all phases of their lives involving family, experts and welfare organizations or by addressing the society as a whole.
The importance of lifelong learning and the constant improvement of personal and communication skills is nowadays a basic requirement in all fields of employment because of the rapidly changing world of business and commerce. Computer skills and foreign language skills are now seen as basic requirements in all the major fields of employment.
One in six people in the European Union (EU) has a disability that ranges from mild to severe making around 80 million who are often prevented from taking part fully in society & the economy because of environmental and attitudinal barriers.
The project "Field Aperture: Inclusion in Society by the Arts" (ISA) intends to act on professional practices, communication by the arts and culture as well as the way to deliver training and school contents to young people and adults.
Increasing international demands that the advocacy and service provider organizations involve their main beneficiaries into the leadership of the institution.
Coordinator: EASPD - EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF SERVICE PROVIDERS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, Belgium
A reflection focus to promote active citizenship of people with Intellectual Disabilities
Coordinator: Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deu, Spain
Partnership: FUB Stockholm (SE), Kézenfogva Összefogás a Fogyatékosokért Alapítvány (HU), BONIFRATERSKA FUNDACJA DOBROCZYNNA (PL) , CUDV Draga (SI)
Since every EU member state is committed to implement the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, it follows that every country will be looking to close down the old-fashioned institutions and move people (and staff) out in community based services.
