Association of parents and friends of people with special needs „Sunce“ is NGO, with regional character which works on solving problems for people with special needs and their families, both through the legislation and every other life areas. Association has been established on 12.08.1998., currently it has 145 members with different levels of disability from low, medium, high and higher category, but mostly with combined disabilities (physical and mental disability).
From July 2004. thanks to the support of city of Mostar and World bank, association works and operates within premises given by the city for usage, on the address Južni logor bb, making possible the realization of many activities and projects.
Associations mission is the improvement of life quality for disabled persons either through their care, education and employment in workshops or with status resolving through legislation. Many of our beneficiaries with low and medium retardation are involved in educational program (school, workshops), while one-third of them is not involved in any kind of educational and nurture program, so we are putting a special accent on that group, providing a daily care for eight beneficiaries with high level of disability and providing visiting tours for immobile beneficiaries. We also have beneficiaries with graduated high school, and they are currently unemployed, so we are trying to find them a job so that they could gain economical independence and self-independence. We are employing them in our workshops Laundry, Kiosk and Greenhouse.
In a day care centre there are four segments of work:
1.Daily care for persons with high level of disability
2.Creative workshops
3.Occupation therapy, workshops laundry, kiosk and greenhouse
4.Habitation with the support for persons with intellectual difficulties
Significant realized projects and those still realizing are:
-Daily care for persons with high level of retardation as an only form of their integration and socialization (Ministry of health, work and social protection HNK and other donors)
-Life help (Resident accommodation for 12 persons, Lebenshilfe-Dresden)
-Procurement of special vehicle with ramp
-Procurement of copier, spiral binding, laminating (La Benevolencija)
-Decoration of the building ground floor (American friends)
-Project DFD, financial aid, procurement of aid and wheelchairs, physical therapy for beneficiaries, personal assistance (dr. Martin Salzer)
-Opening of the workshop Laundry (CNF-CEE)
-Organization of the humanitarian concert and fashion show „ZagrliMo Sunce“ whose successful realization ensured recourses for the project Daily care (Mozaik and private sector)
-Summer holidays for 32 beneficiaries (Molisesorriso)
-Sewing workshops for beneficiaries and volunteers
-Workshops for colouring, making jewellery and decorative objects
-Campaign „Where are my rights?“ (Sumero)
-European volunteer service – EVS volunteer services
-Provision of transport services to school for children with cerebral paralysis (city of Mostar)
-Education of beneficiaries and parents (HNK health department)
-Employment of persons with disabilities (Federal ministry of social politics)
-Kiosk purchase and montage, and employment of persons with disabilities in kiosk (Lebenshilfe -Marburg)
-Improvement of life quality for children with special needs in Mostar – Save the Children UK and EC
-Prevention of institutionalization – (Soroš, Sumero)
-Habitation with support for persons with intellectual difficulties (Ministry of social politics FB&H)
-Greenhouse purchase and montage, growing flowers and vegetables (Molisesorriso)
Contact details:
Association of parents and friends of people with special needs „Sunce“
Association president: Erna Kotlo, contact: 061-154-188
Južni logor bb, Mostar 88000
Tel./fax 036 577 707
e-mail: sunce.mostar@yahoo.com
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