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A Step Towards the Light Project

According to the data taken from institutions like İŞKUR (Turkish Employment Organisation), TURKSTAT and especially from TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey), which has made a comprehensive research about the living standards of disabled people in Turkey “Turkey’s Disabled Research 2002”, it is determined that seeing disabled people can’t reach jobs, even if they have a proper education and training. However, most of the people with seeing disabilities do not have any professional education. One factor for this circumstance is the families, who are not able to guide them; another factor is that the society and the companies are not enlightened about this issue. Nevertheless the result is the social exclusion of the people with seeing disabilities.While the overall problem being tackled with this project is the integration of the people with seeing disabilities into the society regarding socio-cultural, socio-economic and socio-politic aspects,The main aims and objectives of the project are, the integration of seeing disabled people into the society, the transfer of profession training modules and adaptation of them for seeing disabled in Turkey, Informative work for the families of the seeing disabled, institutions and companies; furthermore, especially identifying the problematic issues of people with seeing disabilities regarding companies and enterprises in terms of under-employment or unemployment and reasons behind them and establishing a service network for seeing disabled people.Tangible outcomes will be the transfer of products for the occupational education and training from LdV partners, who are working on products for seeing disabled people. Informative material will be worked out and presented in conferences and workshops for the families of these people and also the problems with institutions and companies will decreased with efficient information panels, workshops, conferences etc. This will provide the solidarity between the seeing disabled, their families and the society. The impact will be a product package which will be taken over and disseminated from institutions which are working with seeing disabled.”
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