Introduce 30 Blind Youth to European Values

Dear our friends!

We are very grateful for your interest in our project. "We are striving for independence"

We are very pleased that you support the idea of integrating Ukrainian youth into European space.

On July 1-10, an international volunteer camp was held on the basis of our organization. Young volunteers from Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Turkey came to us to share experience in inclusive inclusiveness in European society. They took an active part in the training seminar "Going for independence" on preparing for the integration into the society of young people with severe visual impairment on July 6-10.

The seminar-training "Step to independence" was the formation of young people with disabilities to view the body of knowledge and skills for independent living, including safe travel in space, independent of orientation in it, gaining the ability to be mobile, with the use or without use of technical means, bases of successful communication, etc.

The seminar was attended by young people and specialists from different parts of Ukraine, as well as Hanna Maria Prokharchik, a typophile pedagogue, orientation expert in space (Poland, Poznan).

Questions that were discussed at the seminar: orientation in space, safe behavior, sexual education, basics of dance-motor therapy. Most liked the participants of the training on communication, familiarity with modern board games, master classes of modern dance.

In the evenings, it was organized to watch films with teflon comments and discuss the most important issues for youth - employment, self-residence, and the creation of a family.

In August, a group of blind youth with volunteers and specialists will go on a journey to Croatia. The highlight of the meeting should be blind assimilation group members contemporary dance technique for Vaclav Vrublevsky Polish tyflopedahoha, choreographer rehabilitation.

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Dear friends!

Thank you for your interest in our project and its support.

We continue to acquaint the visually impaired young people in Ukraine with the values and laws of European society. Now it is important for the Ukrainian youth. This is a start for inclusion in our society.

In July we are preparing to receive volunteers from different countries in our center. These are ordinary young people who within 10 days will communicate with blind young people in Kharkov, discuss how the representations of Ukrainians about European values are formed? They will be united by a common cause, excursions, leisure. In Kharkov, there is something to show our guests-volunteers.

The idea of an international youth camp in our rehabilitation center is this year making games and benefits for blind children and youth, using universal design standards.

During the year we actively prepared for this project. The models of 2 table games "Strategic sea battle" and "Vazhnitsa" are developed. These games are adapted in such a way that blind people can play with sighted peers. Joint leisure activities unite people, help overcome barriers. We have collected materials for making tactile manuals and books.

Our team considers human independence, its freedom, one of the most important European values. Therefore, we strive to educate blind young people of independence and activity. To this end, we conducted, together with Polish specialists, 3 trainings on the development of mobility and orientation in space.

In August, we plan to hold a summer youth camp "Path to independence" in Croatia for blind young people from all over Ukraine, where they can not only discuss what they care about, but also acquire communication skills, computer skills, the ability to navigate in space, they will find new friends.

In order to implement our plans, we really need your support.

We will be glad if our work is interesting to you.