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A young blind Murcia involved as a volunteer in Belgium European
The Youth Council of the City of Murcia, who heads María Dolores Sánchez, hosted for the first time a young volunteer with visual disabilities work at the Civic Center Area La Nave Young.
This project is part of the European Voluntary Service, Youth in Action Programme of the European Commission, the Department has been developing for 14 years.
In addition, a young blind Murcia volunteering Europe in Liege (Belgium), in this case is the second time he developed this initiative with a young blind man in the municipality.
In 2010 a young visually impaired volunteering made in Mexico.
The young Belgian volunteer already in Murcia and cooperate with La Nave (Bacons Bridge) in leisure activities and downtown Language Club to give young people the opportunity to practice English or French.
Murcia remain until September.
The Murcia start volunteering on February 1, working in the organization Liege Santé Nord-Sud in development cooperation projects with Africa, support for computer classes to Franco-African support for cultural activities, workshops on health and raising awareness on visual impairment as collecting glasses for international solidarity projects.
Remain in Belgium until July.
Volunteers have strengthened support and mentoring to perform their tasks safely and successfully.
Furthermore, both for sending the volunteer host of Murcia as a volunteer for the organization Belgian ONCE in his office in Murcia, is collaborating with the City to provide the necessary support.
The integration of young people with disabilities on an equal footing with other youth is an objective of the Youth Council which pays particular attention to all areas of work, with examples such as the establishment of youth centers adapted, the support associations and youth groups that aim to integrate these, adaptation of information for everyone to access the resources offered, encouraging their participation in European youth exchanges and volunteering.
The hosting and sending volunteers with visual disabilities is a step in the initiatives already launched the City Council in order to achieve the integration of youth with disabilities.
A DVD captures the experiences
María Dolores Sánchez presented the DVD 'Information and Active Citizenship, a strategy for inclusion of people with fewer opportunities', summary of the project financed with the same title as the European Commission to the City and is a manual of methodology for setting Progress Youth Information Services as a strategy for inclusion of young people with sensory disabilities.
The publication brings together the documents, presentations and conclusions of the project that involved youth with disabilities and leaders of organizations of persons with disabilities and Youth Information Centres Murcia, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Italy, Mexico and Portugal.
The result of this project was the adaptation of youth information services for young people with sensory disabilities, the involvement of this group of youth centers and youth information services and strengthening its partnerships
During the meetings the young people and members of organizations have sent technicians to the Department faced difficulties in accessing information provided by the Center Informajoven, and have made efforts to improve and facilitate services to youth with sensory disabilities.
At the same time, this collaboration has resulted in technicians Youth are particularly sensitive on this issue, conducting briefings on sensory disability and FESORMU ONCE, where he has studied and known treatment to be accorded to a person with these characteristics .
Young people have made a report on accessibility of Youth Service offices and facilities Informajoven Center Site, which served to correct deficiencies and improve them.
It also has improved the accessibility of the web, placing the beginning all the main page titles in sign language, action to be developed gradually go with the rest of the pages, beginning with the European Project.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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