At the initiative of parents of children with disabilities, we came up with the idea that each of our activities should be crowned with something common, and that is a name. This is how the initiative to establish the association was born. Our original goal was to bring our children together, to enable them to be seen in our society and to raise the awareness of all of us in the environment. To show our children that they are not alone and that they are part of our wider community and the most important thing is that they are part of our heart. That love for them alone - gave rise to the name we agreed on and collected, which is the name of the association "Our Heart".
The association of persons with childhood and cerebral palsy "OUR HEART" has been in existence for one year - more precisely since 22.12.2021. year when it was registered.
Mission
The association's mission is to support persons with disabilities in exercising their legal rights, improving their remaining capacities, improving the quality of life and creating conditions for social reintegration into the local community.
A vision
The association's vision is to raise the quality of life for both the association's members and their families through a recognizable way of engaged gathering and activities of people with this type of disability, and through acceptance by the local community to mutually create a high-quality and generally acceptable coexistence of the entire community at the highest possible level in developed countries.
Objectives
The main goal is the association of persons with cerebral palsy and children's palsy as well as their parents who have a common interest in realizing their rights from disability protection related to treatment and rehabilitation, education, professional training, employment and other rights.
- Mitigating the problem of discrimination against persons with disabilities and better acceptance in the local community
- Ensuring equal living conditions for persons with disabilities
- Removal of technical barriers by adjusting living conditions for persons suffering from cerebral palsy and infantile paralysis
- Developing positive attitudes and relations of the cooperative of persons with disabilities in relation to the local community through information and education programs.
- Creation of conditions for independent living of persons with disabilities based on remaining abilities through projects of alternative forms of education adapted to these persons for employment opportunities as the ultimate goal of social integration.
- Development of professional and creative abilities of members of the Association.
Regular activities
- Records of membership and monitoring of needs for a better understanding of the social, material and overall life situation of our members.
- Material support to the most vulnerable members through concrete humanitarian actions.
- Connection in the local environment with related humanitarian organizations, institutions, local government and other non-governmental organizations.
