Federation of Disabled Workers of Slovenia – Programme of events in
EYPD 2003
Within the framework of the celebration of the European Year of People with
Disabilities 2003, the Federation of Disabled Workers of Slovenia will carry out
the following activities:
a) at the national level:
1. Symposium entitled the right to equal
opportunities and equal treatment; training and employment of disabled people in
the European Union and Slovenia will be organised by the Federation in
cooperation with the Institute for Rehabilitation of the Republic of Slovenia on
26 September 2003 in Ljubljana. The papers delivered at the above symposium will
be issued in the form of a book.
2. Exhibition of products created by disabled
people. – In cooperation with local associations of disabled people, the
Federation will organize exhibitions of various handmade products created by the
disabled persons at home, in workshops of associations of disabled people or in
workshops organised by the Federation already five years in a row in the towns
of Radenci and Izola. The exhibition will include crocheted products, various
objects made of wood, macramés, knitwear, fancywork, wicker baskets, business
cards produced of clay, silk articles, glass products, literature, paper
flowers, dried flowers, Gobelin tapestry, bobbin products, knitted bottles,
leather goods, fine arts, etc. In this way we will present the creative spirit
of our people with disabilities. The exhibitions will be organized in the cities
of Lenart, Zagorje ob Savi, Dravograd, Trbovlje and Dornberk and will be open
one week each.
3. Pamphlet of the Federation of Disabled
Workers of Slovenia upon the International Year of People with Disabilities. –
The Federation of Disabled Workers of Slovenia will produce a pamphlet issued in
5000 copies and covering the topic of EMPLOYMENT OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. It
is our goal to reach as high number of disabled workers as possible, their
employers and professional services, everybody involved in the problem of
disabled workers as well as the broader public interested in this topic.
4. Show of singing choirs of associations of
disabled peoples integrated into the Federation of Disabled Workers of Slovenia.
– On 2 June 2003, the Federation will organize the fifth singing choirs’ show of
the associations of disabled people integrated into the Federation of Disabled
Workers of Slovenia. This jubilee event will take place in the town of Gorišnica
near the city of Ptuj and will be organised in conjunction with the
Cross-Municipal Association of People with Disabilities of Ptuj. In this way the
creativity of disabled workers and the preservation of the culture of singing
will be presented to the broader audience.
5. The action of civilized parking. – In the
first half of 2003 the Federation will:
- send a request to all police directions in Slovenia for a consistent
monitoring of irregular parking on the premises intended for the vehicles of
persons with disabilities, and
- apply to the Ministry of Interior to be entitled to distribute leaflets
which our volunteers will stick behind the windscreen-wipers of the vehicles
irregularly parked on the premises intended for disabled persons, in order to
assist rooting out the irregular parking.
6. Production of directions for the activities
of trade unions related to employed people with disabilities. Together
with the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs, in the first half of
2003 the Federation will produce the directions regarding the behaviour at
working place which will regulate the elementary human relations between the
employees and will in particular define the relations between disabled workers
and trade unions in working environments.
7. The project of entering the agreement with
mayors on a municiaplity friendly to disabled people. – With the
municipalities of Ajdovšèina, Vipava, Ormož and Èrnomelj, where our associations
of disabled people are also active, the Federation will try to make an agreement
on the introduction of friendlier conditions which will be less discriminatory
and more in the spirit of Standard rules for assuring equal opportunities of
disabled people to everybody who cannot be equally included into the life and
work of the community (all kinds of accessibility) due to disability or old age.
The Federation proposed the establishment of a fund for co-financing the
elimination of constructed obstacles at the national level. The municipality of
Ajdovšèina shall become an example at the state level of a city which is
friendly to older inhabitants and to those whose mobility is heavily impeded or
who are immobile.
8. The project of civil society school. – The
civil society school is a project involving a two-year training of volunteers
who will, after the training is completed, work in our associations of disabled
people and tackle the social and labour conditions in the local community. This
is a training intended for a timely and effective reaction to permanent changes
in the society.
b) at the local level:
1. Round tables on ACCESSIBILITY. –
Rountables in Radlje ob Dravi, Celje, Èrnomelj, Ajdovšèina, Ormož and Kamnik
will be organised to inform general public and competent bodies in the places
where these roundtables will be held about the complex problem of accessibility
in the process of providing equal opportunities for people of any kind of
disability. Disabled people should take part in the establishment of standards
and norms of accessibility as well as be involved at the local level from the
early stages of planning and designing projects, thus ensuring a maximum level
of accessibility.
2. Educational action. – The Coordination
Committee of Associations of Disabled People of the Koroška Region, made up of
disability associations of Dravograd, Drava – Radlje ob Dravi, the Mežica
valley, Muta and Slovenj Gradec, will invite managements of all schools of the
Koroška region to take part in the educational action for the fourteenth year in
a row. Students of primary and secondary schools of the Koroška region will be
invited to write a paper on a selected topic, dealing with disability issues.
The idea behind this educational action is to make the public aware, in
particular young people at whom the action is targeted, of people with
disabilities and of disabilities as such, thus enhancing the quality of life
of disabled people, which is to present a positive aspect of disabilitiy
to young generation.