1.   Making use of the EEA Mechanism and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism The 'Step by Step' Association of Help for Disabled Children in Zamosc started to implement a project called '3 in 1 - the increase in access to integrated health, social and educational care for disabled children and their families in Zamosc region. The Project is part of the Association’s development strategy, which includes, among others, modernisation of the Zamosc Rehabilitation-Therapeutic Centre for Disabled Children (1300 sq. m.) The project is implemented in Zamosc (Lublin Province, Poland) and  includes beneficiaries mostly from the rural, farming area of the Zamosc region. Within the sub-project of improving staff qualifications the project  covers the rest of Poland and partly the Ukraine and Moldova. The planned time framework of the project is: September 1^st 2008 – April 30^st 2010.

The general aim of the project is improving the quality of life of Zamosc region disabled children and their families.

The planned aims will be achieved through the implementation of the following actions (sub-projects):

A: Modernization of the Association's NZOZ (Independent Health Care Centre) Rehabilitation -Therapeutic Centre for Disabled Children in Zamosc, 6a Peowiakow (Lublin Province, Poland) and equipping with modern medical/rehabilitation devices .

B. Programs aimed at reducing the consequences of disability as well as at supporting disabled children and their families and preparing them for life in an integrated community.

C. Programs aimed at improving the qualifications of the staff of the Applicant’s centres as well as other centres functioning in Poland, the Ukraine and Moldova in the field of integrated care and quality management. 

The total value of the Project is 747, 710 €. of which 672’939 Euros (90%)  as a grant from the FMO.

2. Making use of the EFS The 'Step by Step' Association of Help for Disabled Children in Zamosc started to implement a project called “The CPNET” (The Net of Cerebral Palsy).

 

 

 

3. The 'Step by Step' Association of Help for Disabled Children in Zamosc applies  to THE COUNTERPART FUNDS

DEPOSITED UNDER THE JAPANESE GRANT AID

Sunny Gift of Health -  increase in access to active rehabilitation and education for disabled children in the Zamosc region.

 

4. BRIDGE -comparison of living conditions of disabled youth from Poland, Ukraine and UK 

The aim of the 'Bridge' project and the 'Polish-Ukrainian Bridge to Equality' project was increasing participation of disabled young people in social, economic, cultural and civic life according to European standards. During its implementation a Polish-British –Ukrainian group of 27 young disabled people took part in peer education workshops in which they studied and compared access by disabled people to the following areas of life - education, health care, sports, culture and employment - mostly in terms of architectural and technical accessibility of public places. The participants were students/patients of the 'Step by Step Foundation of Help for Disabled Children in Zamosc, The Percy Hedley Foundation in Newcastle and the AJURWEDA Association of Help for Disabled Children and their Families in Bila Cerkva.

Their work consisted in experiencing barriers in the above listed areas of life in Poland in person and then comparing the living conditions in the three countries.  

The disabled young people discussed their relevant experiences during a public debate organized within the Project on 25 June 2008. Participants were listened to by representatives of the local authorities who were invited to the debate.