December 3 is an opportunity for the international community to update its understanding of disability issues, to mobilize the world in support of the rights and interests of people with disabilities, to ensure their well-being and inclusion in community life.
This is our opportunity to see and hear people with disabilities and do our best to make them and us feel like real people, happy people.
In the Vinnytsia region, it is a day to summarize the results of work on creating a society of equal opportunities and eliminating problems for people with disabilities.
Every day, when we help people with disabilities, we see that those with mobility difficulties constantly face physical discrimination - when you have to overcome thousands of small and large barriers every day, when you cannot get to places where others can, when some interesting or important events or objects are closed to you because they are located in inaccessible places. However, there is also moral discrimination. Society often unwittingly causes moral harm to people with disabilities. First of all, this is manifested in the attitude towards such people as sick, helpless, and in need of constant physical and material care. It is also manifested in inappropriate and unethical vocabulary.
So December 3 is an opportunity to become more tolerant, kinder, and learn to accept human diversity.
In Vinnytsia region, the team of the NIU project «Improving Rehabilitation Services in Healthcare Systems», caring about tolerance and charity, together with the regional representative of the NIU in Vinnytsia region, the Open Hearts Association, the Vinnytsia Regional Center for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation of Children and Youth with Functional Disabilities «Obriy» and the Dunstan Craft Center organized a costume quest «Medieval Journey to St. Nicholas» for children and youth with disabilities. This is an incredible journey to the era of chivalry and a good outdoor recreation!
Children and young people took part in incredible adventures with medieval trials, hot herbal tea with cookies by the fire and photos to remember. And, of course, a meeting with St. Nicholas himself and the Guardian Angel.
To receive the gifts, they had to pass various tests and find the lost key to the ancient chest!
We thank the Dunstan Craft Center for the incredible emotions! For tolerance and inclusiveness.
REBUILDING UKRAINE - LET'S RESTORE HUMANITY, TOLERANCE, AND CHARITY IN OUR SOULS AND IN SOCIETY
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This initiative is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development under cooperative agreement number 7200AA18CA00032 with Partnerships Plus, funded through September 28, 2018, and implemented by the JSI Institute for Research and Training under agreement number PP-EI-001 with Momentum Wheels for Humanity. The contents are the sole responsibility of the National Assembly of People with Disabilities of Ukraine and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.
