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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

In the service of citizens

Creating conditions for increasing employment for persons with disabilities

Belgrade, 15 September 2007

Serbian Minister of Labour and Social Policy Rasim Ljajic said today during a visit to the Dystrophy Association in Belgrade that his ministry will work intensively on creating conditions for increasing employment for persons with disabilities and make it possible for them to use information technology.

Ljajic said on the occasion that the goal of the ministry is to make efforts within the framework of the campaign “European Year of Equal Opportunities for All” for persons with disabilities, to activate their potential and raise their self-confidence, so that they become an integral part of the community.

He explained that the process of employment implies opening info-centers in local self-governments, where expert potential of persons with disabilities could be determined and a date base of employees formed, who are ready to employ them.

According to Ljajic, in order to make this system function it is necessary to adopt a law on employing persons with disabilities.

Ljajic handed over a computer to the Dystrophic Association and presented projects which the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy intends to launch jointly with the organisations Koloseum and Linkus Centre.

The goal of these projects is social integration of persons with disabilities and help to make them better informed and to get employment more easily. There are more than half a million persons with disabilities in Serbia.

Koloseum is an organisation for providing humanitarian help to persons with disabilities and it is conducting a project for forming municipality info-centers which would contain a data base of persons with disabilities who are capable to work. The Linkus Centre has a project for introducing software to organs of local and public administration, with the goal to secure accessible information to persons with special needs.

The Dystrophic Association of Belgrade, founded in 1973, gathers persons who are suffering from various forms of muscle dystrophy and aims to help them realise their rights.