Activity Workshop Set Up at Emmanuel Home22 February 2010
The activity workshop offering assistance for severely multiply disabled young people aged 18-31 beingcared for in the Emmanuel Home youth group was set up with the help of EU funding amounting to over 43 million HUF granted within the framework of NHDP.
Pedagogues working at the home will be able to organise useful activities in a handicap-friendly environment from 22 February, giving young people the opportunity to experience the numerous dimensions of success. Ability and creativity development handicraft activities offering a productive way to spend time will be provided under ideal conditions at the home for 25-30 disabled persons with the help of this investment.
The Emmanuel Home has been operating since 1991 under the management of the Vicarage of the Great Calvinist Church in Debrecen. Spectacular developments have been carried out at this institution over the past 18 years, which initially provided rehabilitation for 14 multiply disabled children. Today, this institution provides complex services covering the entire region for severely multiply disabled young people aged 5-30.
Quasi-employment workshops, making these young people self-sufficient and organising creative activities are the main focuses of activities provided for young people with multiple disabilities above compulsory school age. The current project assists in the high standard realization of these activities. An activity workshop fully equipped with handicap facilities, satisfying the needs of persons with disabilities to a maximum extent and providing the opportunity to experience what it feels like to engage in productive work – from pottery through to candle-making – and develop creative abilities and manipulation skills was set up in the basement of the institution within the framework of this development.
A safety lift ensures access to the workshop set up within the framework of this investment from the ground floor of the building wing operating at present, where 3 employees will supervise and assist workshop activities. These activities will not only be provided for adults, but will also be integrated in the time-table of multiply disabled school-aged children and used to develop the abilities of these children.
Objects created in these workshops will not be commercially marketed by the institution. This particular target-group is in the most disadvantaged situation on the labour market and is only capable of producing anything with a great deal of help provided on a permanent basis. It is nevertheless relevant for this target-group to be more than simply passive users of the social system, these people must feel that they are also productive members of society through the objects they create.