The
association's assembly of persons with disability Split,
initiating from common interests of
social community for further incorporation of people
with disability into various happenings of their
existential environment,
establishing that the level of the
social welfare for people with disability is not proper
to real needs of those people such as medical, social
and professional rehabilitation, but also need for
education, employment and integration into the life of
the community and communication,
emphasising the need of preventing
disability and offering help to persons with disability
to develop the rest of their physical and spiritual
abilities,
taking into consideration that in
their everyday life persons with disability cope with a
number of difficulties throughout living, moving, using
public objects and facilities, in public transportation,
in realizing their rights, education, rehabilitation,
work and fulfilment of other existential needs,
pointing out the expressed lack of
good will and required readiness of the factors of Split
and its wider surroundings in offering help to persons
with disability and their integration in the life of the
city and the whole environment,
pointing out the need for gathering
good-willing people and persons with disability alone,
with purpose of encouraging measures and actions as well
as for improvement of social and existential position,
as for improvement of social welfare of persons with
disability,
had decided on the meeting, held on
October 23, 2002 in Split, to confirm and convey this
PROGRAMME ORIENTATION
of the association through
period of 2002 - 2006
To work on disclosure, keeping
records and obtaining information
of persons with disability;
To follow the condition and needs of
persons with disability and suggest necessary measures
for their realization;
To obtain and deal with information
and make suitable analyses about social, health,
educational and other needs of persons with disability;
To introduce public, state and other
institutions with existential difficulties and needs of
persons with disability;
To promote means which enable health
care to promptly discover, make a diagnosis, observe and
prevent a certain disability, and also habitation and
rehabilitation of persons with disability;
To encourage efforts which enable
parents for appropriate rehabilitation treatment of
children with disability;
To work on creating of conditions for
more effective assistance to persons with disability;
To work on extension of legal
protection for persons with disability by improving
existing and conveying new conventions, and by
codification of conventions concerning persons with
disability;
To promote the inclusive integration
of persons with disability in existential and working
environment and to support and encourage activities
which contribute to progress of physically disabled
people into full personalities and rightful members of
society;
To promote complete implementation of
persons with disability in regular system of nurture and
education;
To promote improvement of material
status of persons with disability and their families by
enhancing the existing and introducing now kinds of help
and relieves;
To promote immense employment of
persons with disability through more effective
professional orientation, adjustment of the occupations'
register to current technology and astablishment of tax
relief for employers who provide work for persons with
disability;
To dynamically participate and
support actions and activities in city of Split, all
united in project "Split - a healthy city";
To make and introduce the project
"Split - a reachable city" to the public of city of
Split and completely focus on its accomplishment;
To frequently inform persons with
disability about official publications concerning
legislative regulations, science, medicine,
rehabilitation, social welfare and others that is
relevant to persons with disability;
To work on extensive occurrence of
issues referring to persons with disability in means of
public announcements and in mass media;
To improve and encourage coordination
with associations, institutions, firms and bodies both
in Croatia and abroad, which in their function have
concepts important for persons with disability;
To provide courses, round tables,
tribunes, lectures, exhibitions, curtural evenings,
conventions with celebrities and also entertaining,
sport, recreational and other kinds of gatherings and
activities of person with disability.
On the grounds of these annotations the
bodies of management are obliged to create annual operative
plans of work by which they will be able to determine tasks
and measures with purpose how to fulfil them.
