SUPPORT TO THE DISABLED AND EXPERIENCE EXCHANGE
27.10.2011
City of Nis and Palilula Municipality in 2010 started the cooperation with the German organization Internationaler bund (www.internationaler-bund.de ) that deals with supporting services to the people with invalidity and exists more than 30 years. The representatives of this organization led by Norman Diesnner, member of regional Parliament for Hessen Region and in charge for social policy welcomed Milan Djurdjevic, Palilula Municipal president and PhD Igor Novakovic, president of Palilula Municipality. They introduced the guests from Germany with the results of Palilula Municipal activities on the project Exchange 3 recently completed and that referred to the support of socially jeopardized people with invalidity.

The representatives of Internationaler Bund organization have been in Nis three times so far, says Zorica Stojiljkovic, member of the Council of Palilula Municipality. They have visited the institutions of social protection in the City in order to take into account the level and the whole scope of the support provided to the people with invalidity in our surrounding and Serbia as a state. During the August 2011 the return visit to Germany was organized where eight of our professionals (defectologists and psychologists) spent time in Frankfurt, Hessen region visiting the institutions of IB organizations that provide various services to the disabled.

According to the words of project managers Christiane Lensch and Ivana Stajkovic, the cooperation started with the professionals exchange – experts involved in the work with people with invalidity in Nis with the teachers of special school `14 oktobar` and Center `Mara` and also in Frankfurt. The other part of the project is actually happening this week in Nis where our professionals should present to German delegation the way of the work with the disabled in our surrounding and the things that have been so far adopted from German practice-emphasizes Ivana Stajkovic.

This is the beginning of the cooperation of Nis and Frankfurt professionals and the first common project in the sphere of social protection of the disabled. The professionals have also the agreement for the new project to apply for EU funds in the coming period.