The young people with locomotor disabilities will be able to attend vocational training courses within a project launched by “Motivatie” (“Motivation”) Association. A part of the 20 beneficiaries will be helped to find employment.
The association’s executive director Igor Meriacre has told IPN that in 2004, the association opened a Center for Independent Life in Vadul lui Voda town with foreign grants. The center is attended by persons with locomotor disabilities confined to wheelchairs, who receive vocational training and take part in sports activities there. The association also launched a project themed “Equal Employment Chances” within which there were held informative seminars and activities to form initiative groups in the districts of Ialoveni, Stefan Voda, Calarasi, Soldanesti, Rezina, and Falesti.
”The lack of education is the most serious problem of the disabled persons. We made effort to help them, but the employers want persons with studies and experience. We are now helping several young people to become employed. This year we aim to help at least 20 young people to obtain qualifications and to assist a part of them in finding a job,” said Igor Meriacre.
He also said that a young woman with locomotor disabilities last summer applied to be admitted to professional courses in provision of postal services, but was rejected. The association’s members asked the authorities to lend a hand. Only after the Education Ministry intervened, the woman was enrolled in courses, received scholarship and a place in the dorm.
Another 26 persons with disabilities were employed within the project “Monitoring the observance of the rights of persons with disabilities in Moldova”, which is financed by the EU. “Unfortunately, this is a short project and the given persons will remain without a job in five months,” said Igor Meriacre.
In order to facilitate employment, a training course will be organized in the near future for eight persons with locomotor disabilities. They will learn how to write a CV and how to take part in an employment contest independently.
The projects initiated by “Motivatie” cover persons with locomotor disabilities from all over the country. More than 1,000 disabled persons benefited from the services provided by the association since its foundation in 2004.
