Vocational Training for Children and Young People with Disabilities
This project in Moldova gives children and teens with disabilities a space where they can socialise with one other and with other people their age whilst learning vocational skills.
Working in conjunction with local partner Speranta, WJR is providing a club which allows young people living with disabilities between the ages of 9 and 20 to mix with peers without disabilities. Accommodating for 150 teens and young adults in total, the centre runs workshops teaching painting, tailoring, art and handicrafts.
Vasile and Elena
Vasile, aged 9, is one of the youngest participants of Speranta’s artistic workshops. Despite being physically disabled, preventing him from receiving a mainstream education in the cold and rainy months of the year, he decided to take part in the weekly knitting and tailoring workshop. Vasile was the only boy from his school to do so and joined a group of girls both with disabilities and without in learning loom knitting in September.
Elena, aged 18, is an active member of the Speranta’s centre’s ‘Teenage club’ and has attended a number of workshops organised by the centre, learning both how to paint and knit, taking the skills she learnt and developing her own creations at home. She particularly likes knitting flowers and has made a number of models as gifts for her school teachers and to be displayed in the centre’s winter exhibition.
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