Social experiments, interactive games, mobile exhibitions and mobile apps – these are only few examples of using different tools helping to expand accessibility in different spheres. Participants of the Accessibility Forum got acquainted with activities of NGOs and social organizations in Belarus in the frames of the Accessibility Week – 2015.

The grand opening of the Accessibility Week – 2015 took place on April 24 and at the same time the exhibition of posters “Accessibility is -…” opened for visitors in Gallery TUT.BY

Exhibition of posters “Accessibility is -…” opens in the frames of annual Accessibility Week in Minsk. Exposition will be opened for everyone from April 24 till April 30 in Gallery TUT.BY (Minsk Derzhinskogo av. 57) the entrance is free.

Andrey (the names are changed) went to a usual kindergarten and now goes to common school in spite of Down syndrome. Specialists insisted on studying at home but his mother (she has two other children) wasn’t afraid of difficulties and protected the right of her son to study at a common school. Today the boy studies just a little bit worse than his peers and according to the mother everyone at school is in good relations with him.

Accessibility Week will be held in Belarus for the third time and the Office for the rights of persons with disabilities is its initiator. “From accessibility to equality” – is the key slogan of the Accessibility Week which hasn’t lost it topicality during the years the Accessibility Week has been held.

We are starting to prepare for “Accessibility Week – 2015” the main events of which are planned for April. We offer, together with the participants of the last Accessibility Week, to recollect what had been done, what useful things we shared during the last event and what topics should be covered better. If you have something to say and want to join the preparation or have any ideas which hwill make the Week more qualitative write to our email info@disright.org.

Realization of own projects, raise of motivation and faith in own powers are the main results of the program “Acting with unlimited possibilities” which has been finished lately. Lilia Volina the program’s coordinator and an employee of the Office for the rights of persons with disabilities will tell us about the difficulties and successes of the program.

In order to expand the accessibility of environment and make the use of the principles of the Convention of the rights of persons with disabilities more common there is a need to establish cooperation between specialists in post-soviet countries, - considers the head of the Russian branch of Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Tina Farni.

Teacher-defectologist Evgenia Dailidenok had been working for 3 years in integrated class of Ozerets kindergarten of Glubokskiy district (Vitebsk Oblast). She considers that in educational process a lot depends on a teacher and that we should move from integrated education to inclusive.

Handicrafts made by people with disabilities from Svir institution in Poland soon will be sold in designer shops in Belarus. Specialists assure that these works have not only spiritual but also art value.