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In the period from January 31 till February 21, 2012 the Office for the rights of persons with disabilities is holding regional stage of informational campaign “Accessibility”. Informational days will be held in oblast centers of the country according to the following schedule:

31.01 – Grodno (Address: Budenogo str. 48a office 62)

01.02. – Brest (Address: café “Feia” Pushkinskaya str 16/1)

08.02 – Vitebsk (the address will be given later)

15.02 – Mogilev (the address will be given later)

16.02 – Gomel (the address will be given later)

The Office for the rights of persons with disabilities in the frames of informational campaign “Accessibility” holds round table “To independent living through Accessibility”.

The main speaker of the event is the expert of “European network on independent living” Jamie Bolling.

The event will take place on February 26. Minsk, Voronianskogo str. 50, building 4.

Beginning at 11.00. Registration starts at 10.30

All NGOs interested in solving the problems of independent living and working in this sphere are welcome.

Regional stage of the informational campaign “Accessibility” held by the Office for the rights of persons with disabilities has started. First informational days were held in Grodno and Brest.

There are about 20000 wheelchair-bound disabled in the Republic of Belarus.

They all are potential work force (engineers, salespersons, accountants etc.). But, due to different reasons, mainly because of the USSR’s heritage, practically all of them do not have a job, they complain about their lives and do no imagine how they can have a good life in such difficult conditions. Because sometimes they have to learn again how to move, take care of their health, eat and get dressed…

Every year 400 persons become wheelchair-bound disabled.

On January 26, 2012 theoretical and practical conference “Barrier-free environment as the factor of stable development of the society” was held in the Academy of management under the aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus. The program of the conference consisted of seminars, each of which was dedicated to some important social problem in the sphere of disability. The speakers raised the problems existing at each stage of life of a person with disability.

Regional stage of the informational campaign “Accessibility” held by the Office for the rights of persons with disabilities has started. First informational days were held in Grodno and Brest.

The ceremony of awarding the laureates and winners of the competition of essays and studies on topic “Accessibility and disability. Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities” held by the Office for the rights of persons with disabilities took place on January 30. Anastasia’s Ianuchek’s work took the first place. Anastasia is a fifth year student of law faculty of Belarusian State Economic University. Her work is dedicated to the UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities.

Evgeniy Shevko and Yulia Katorzhinskaya took the second and third places.

Minsk, January 24, 2012. Round table on topic “Accessibility of insurance services for persons with disabilities” was held in Minsk. The event was initiated and organized by the Office for the rights of persons with disabilities and International social-economic fund “Idea”. The main topic was the discussion of the accessibility for persons with disabilities of insurance services, such as accident insurance and insurance for going abroad – these two types of insurance are not available for persons with 1st and 2nd groups of disabilities in the majority of Belarusian insurance companies.

On January 27th the Office for the rights of persons with disabilities took part in round table “Partnership without limitations”, organized by the office of the International Children’s Fund.

The main goal of the event was the raise of the potential and the effectiveness of organizations working for persons with disabilities through the involvement of interested parties and partnership development.

On January 23rd Vitebsk joint organization of NGO “Republican association of wheelchair-bound disabled” with the support of the Office for the rights of persons with disabilities started to realize the project “Labour overcomes barriers”. Project’s main goal is to hold the research of employment and the accessibility of job placement for persons with disabilities in Vitebsk and to find out the weak points in this sphere. All the gathered data will be analyzed and compared. Round table and the presentation of the research results will be held to summarize the results of the project.