Computerlessen voor gehandicapte kinderen - deel 2 - Stichting Spero
Channel: Amer Kapetanovic
Date: 2011-06-24

This is a video made for the project "Computerlessen voor gehandicapte kinderen - deel 2" (Computer lessons for handicapped kids and youth). The project run by a Dutch humanitarian organization Stichtig Spero. The whole project description is posted on http://www.onepercentclub.com/projects/Computerlessendeel2 on which you can log on and make a donation for the project. Those are small projects and are funded by ordinary people who would like to help others in need. 
Project description:
Sokolac is a small town about 100 km away from the capital Sarajevo. Sokolac municipality has about 14,950 inhabitants. These people live mainly from agriculture and timber industries. 
Sokolac live in currently 220 disabled children / young people registered. In Bosnian society, this category of people always heavily discriminated against and now after the war is even worse. Some parents are ashamed of their own children and hide them in the house. Disability are seen as a severe punishment and disabled people are ridiculed and condemned by others. That way they live outside of society. 
These children have mild to severe physical and mental disabilities. They are children with Down syndrome, spinal cord and mild to severe mental retardation. They fall in the eyes of the average inhabitant of Sokolac in the same category - and that is not worth it to them to care for themselves. They fall outside the community, outside of life. 
"Podrska", our partner organization, want to break this taboo. They find that an average citizen of Bosnia on three need skills to a reasonable place of work: a foreign language (usually English) to speak and understand computer skills and license. Children suffering from "Podrska" shall follow ordinary education where no real attention is paid to their inertia and their special needs. Computer lessons will anyone at school anyway. "Podrska" these young people will offer computer classes and train them in this way in one of the three named important skills.