Empowering Young Disabled People to Take Action in Europe

This course aims to highlight how to engage with blind and visually impaired young people and support them to get involved into regular international youth activity. Candidates will learn: – How to guide blind and visually impaired young people – Make adaptions to sessions that allow for inclusion – Find out about the range of different impairments and how this effects vision – Develop ideas for activities with blind and visually impaired young people – Gain a network with partners willing to make activities with blind and visually impaired young people Building upon the successful project, which was delivered in Bosnia and Herzegovina last year, (http://bit.ly/1m9WBwN) we will deliver a number of sessions around inclusion, empathy and understanding. These sessions worked very well with sighted participants and strongly developed their sense of empathy and willingness to support blind and visually impaired young people. During the training, we will build-up skills with participants as well as teaching about the different forms of blindness and impairments. Towards the end of the week, we will invite blind and visually impaired young people to come and enjoy and experience the facilities the centre has to offer. This will then support the participants to get some hands-on experience in guiding and adapting activities round the young people abilities. Our partners for this project: HYP Learning, Greece Asociatia Babilon Travel, Romania Associazione Studenti per la Citta, Italy Autonomia e Descoberta, CRL, Portugal The Exchangeables, Netherlands Bala THE VENUE The event will be held in a beautiful residential centre in Wales offering many indoor and outdoor activities, but the location is quite in a rural area. The closest airport is Manchester International Airport. We will provide group pick-up by bus from Manchester so will need your cooperation to arrive in the airport either before 12pm noon or 6pm so please find your flights accordingly. Please also include £20 (about €25) calculated from your total travel costs, which we will deduct from your travel reimbursement for the cost of return group coach per person to pick you and drop you off to the airport. WHAT TO DO NEXT If you wish to participate in this event, please fill the application form before 6th October 2014 from this link: http://www.act-global.org/application-form-uk-training/. Result notification will be 14th October 2014. If you are selected, you need to buy your ticket to Manchester within a week (and email us the eticket) to confirm your place. Please email vi@act-global.org if you have any question about this event. Please follow us on Facebook to get an update on our future events!