Disability Awareness

‘Disability Awareness’ will be held in N.Macedonia including travel days. It aims to bring together 36 participants aged between 18-25.
There will be 7 participants
from each country; 1 mentally disabled, 1 his/her companion, 2 group leader and 3 people
with disadvantages. These will be explained in more detail in participants' profile section.
-What we want to accomplish with this method of learning by experience is to integrate individuals with mental retardation into the society, to gain the ability to self-sufficiency, to express themselves, to strengthen their social dialogue, to make them more physically healthy, to improve their employment capacity by providing their competencies and qualifications,to save from syndrome of being addicted and excluded, to become active citizens, to participate in intercultural interaction, to strengthen their selfconfidence and abilities.

Participants’ Profile
 Each country will have 5 participants with disadvantages, 1 mentally disabled
participant and his/her companion and 2 group leader.
 Between 18-25 years old. (no age limit for the leader and companion)
 Mentally disabled participants’ mental disability level is supposed to be 50-69
IQ (limited understanding and perception)
 Responsible
 Highly motivated
 Able to represent his/her culture

During the project; there will be Skill Development workshops which will include art of paper marbling, percussion, cloth bag painting and origami. Also sports activities which includes teamplay games, flexing, exercises exclusive to participants with disabilities.
Besides, there will be a video presentation workshop. Before the project each country is supposed to record a video about a day of a disabled person from their country and they will present that video during the project.