DISABILITY AND EMPLOYMENT

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DISABILITY AND EMPLOYMENT

• ENOTHE 2008
• Latvia, Turkey, Bulgaria

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DISABILITY AND EMPLOYMENT

• ENOTHE 2008
• Latvia, Turkey, Bulgaria

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• A disability (resulting from an impairment) is a
  restriction or lack of ability to perform an
  activity in the manner or within the range
  considered normal for a human being.

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• The term is used to refer to individual
  functioning, including physical impairment,
  sensory impairment, cognitive impairment,
  intellectual impairment mental illness, and
  various types of chronic disease.

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• Awareness of different needs for someone is more
  important than definitions of disabilities.

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• There are 400 000 people with disability in
  Bulgaria.
• 12 778 of people with disability in Bulgairia are
  registered in Local Employment Agency.

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• Only 13 of the people with disabilities are
  involved in labour market, i.e. receive incomes
  for their occupation.
• From all the employed, 8 work at the programs
  for special support employment.

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• 92 of the people with disabilities in Bulgaria
  are between 16 - 64.
• 10 at age under 29.

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• 46 of people with disability in Bulgaria find
  difficulties in accessibility of environment and
  24 find it unaccessible.

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• The most typical barriers of physical environment
  are steps, stairs, gaps, doorsteps, unsuitable
  hight of working surface, width of doors, rought
  surfaces.

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• The most typical barriers of social enironment
  are unaccessible communications, stigmas,
  stereotypes, loss of knowledge about disabiliy
  and people with disability needs, loss of
  knowledge about their needs.

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• The most typical barriers of institutional
  environment are poverty, insufficient benefits,
  uneffective and unsupportative legislations for
  people with disability, unaccesible education,
  loss of encouraging policies for employers.

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• Why to employ person with disability?
• As it is very hard to find a job, they are
  motivated not to loose it and are responsible and
  loyal workers.
• Financial benefits for the employer providing
  subsidated working places.

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• We have to look at persons skills and
  qualification first, not at disability.
• Responsibility as a member of society.

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• However there are some special needs
• Adjusment of environment, work organisation, time
  for adaptation, social support of colleagues and
  empoyer etc.

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• Now we would like to show you some good examples
  of practice from Turkey!
• VOCATIONAL TRAINING PROJECT FOR DISABLED PEOPLE
  IN TURKEY The aim of our project is to provide
  inclusive employment for disable people

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• Due to this aim, vocational training for disabled
  people was planned in the area of silver
  handcraft which is an original Anatolian
  handcraft.

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• This project has enlarged the possibilities to
  find a work, basic for the inclusion. This
  meaningful occupation has promoted their health,
  understood as physical well-being,social well
  being and a psychological well-being.

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• And now we would like to show you a video made by
  nongovernmental organisation Apeirons in Latvia

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• Video

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• Human Rights (Article 23)
• Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of
  employment, to just and favourable conditions of
  work and to protection against unemployment.

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• Thank you for your attention!
• Questions?