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Lalovic visits Dystrophy Association of Belgrade

Belgrade, 17 January 2007

Serbian Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Policy Slobodan Lalovic visited today the Dystrophy Association of Belgrade and announced that this year the law on the employment of the disabled will be adopted.

Lalovic said that once the law is adopted, the future government should be among the first to set an example and start employing disabled persons and other public companies should follow in their footsteps.

Assistant Minister for the care of disabled persons Sladjana Markovic recalled that the Ministry finances regular activities of the Dystrophy Association on a monthly basis.

According to Markovic, the Association received around RSD 500,000 in 2005 for financing media campaigns, as well as more than RSD 1 million for an art workshop, whereas in 2006 the figure stood at RSD 1.385 million.

President of the Dystrophy Association of Belgrade Dusan Trojanovic said that the disabled are among those who were most affected by transition, adding that the Association's priority is to resolve its members' existential problems since these people mostly live on pensions amounting to not more than RSD 4,000 and the means set aside by the state for house care which stand between RSD 4,000 and RSD 8,000.

The Dystrophy Association of Belgrade has around 400 members and is the largest organisation of the Dystrophy Association of Serbia. In line with the Ministry's activities regarding the employment of the disabled, the Dystrophy Association of Belgrade was among the first to train its members through programmes such as "The Computer School".