Foundation ONCE Krzyżewo News gallery How to help contact Text version Site Map: Contrast: Enlarging the text: A A A Search Foundation history The Foundation "Work for the Blind" was established in 1991 by the decision of the Committee to Aid the Blind in Poland in New York, which is its founder. The Foundation is the executor of the Committee's will and represents it in Poland. In addition, it also carries out its own initiatives and projects for the blind and visually impaired. The first joint initiative of the Committee and the Foundation was to finance the takeover by the Polish Association of the Blind of a rehabilitation base for the needs of the blind community. In the years 1999-2008, the Foundation administered and paid part of the costs of maintaining the Blind Orphanage in Warsaw. Completely blind children are admitted to the home. Their upbringing and rehabilitation is the responsibility of Mrs. Cecylia Czartoryska, who is assisted by the employed staff both at work and in maintaining the family atmosphere of warmth. In February 1998, the Foundation established the Occupational Therapy Workshop in Płock with a view to helping people with visual impairment. This facility helps blind people increase their self-esteem and acceptance of the world around them, and prepares them to work in an open or protected labor market. In 2007, the Foundation handed over the running of the workshop to the local organization - Towarzystwo Pomocy Dzieciom. The most important event in the history of the Foundation was the establishment of another institution - Agricultural Vocational Activity Institute in Stanisławów near Drobin. In the years 2000-2001, the process of starting RZAZ's activity, i.e. the purchase of real estate in the village of Stanisławowo, receipt of the decision on granting the status of a Vocational Activity Establishment from the Masovian Voivode, and signing an agreement with the State Fund for Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons, continued. The official opening of the plant took place in July 2001. Currently, 53 disabled people and 20 service people work at the Agricultural Vocational Activity Institute in Stanisławów. (More in the "RZAZ" tab) One of the most important aspects of the Foundation's activities has become the conduct and financing of works related to the use and adaptation of new technologies to the needs of the blind. The Foundation planned and organized the creation and production of the first speech synthesizer in Poland that reads black letters in Polish under the name "Auto -Lektor". On November 12, 2008, the Management Board of the Foundation organized the first conference devoted to aid activities for the blind and partially sighted, entitled "Agricultural Vocational Activity Establishment - a good example of fulfilling the disabled at work". During the meeting, which took place in the RZAZ in Stanisławów, the President of the Committee for Aid to the Blind in Poland with its seat in New York, Mr. Stanisław Świderski was presented with the "Pro Masovia" medal for all aid activities and involvement in the social development of Mazovia.W dniach 19 - 20 października 2010 roku w Państwowej Wyższej Szkole Wschodnioeuropejskiej w Przemyślu odbyła się konferencja pt. "Polsko – ukraińskie doświadczenia w rehabilitacji i aktywizacji osób z dysfunkcją narządu wzroku’’. W trakcie konferencji poza wykładami merytorycznymi, przeprowadzono warsztaty z orientacji przestrzennej oraz sposobów organizowania wczesnego wsparcia dla rodzin, w których przychodzi na świat dziecko z wadami wzroku. Od dwóch lat Fundacja organizuje klikumiesięczne sesje bezpłatnych porad prawnych pn. "Znaj swoje prawa" przeznaczonych dla niepełnosprawnych mieszkańców województwa mazowieckiego. W ramach prowadzonego programu beneficjenci korzystają z pomocy wykwalifikowanych radców prawnych z następujących dziedzin prawa: orzekanie o niepełnosprawności, rehabilitacji osób niepełnosprawnych, prawa pracy i ubezpieczeń społecznych, prawa rodzinnego i spadkowego, prawa mieszkaniowego i ochrony praw lokatorów. W ramach własnych inicjatyw Fundacja organizuje również systematycznie dla osób niewidomych i słabowidzących z województwa mazowieckiego: wycieczki, imprezy o charakterze kulturalnym i integracyjnym, spotkania przedświąteczne oraz eventy okolicznościowe. A year ago, the Foundation organized the first edition of the competition "Supporting small, local initiatives of the blind and visually impaired communities", awarding co-financing to two of the most interesting projects. Copyright © 2012 by "Praca dla Blindomych " Foundation Made by: ewipo.pl KRS number: 0000158692, Foundation's bank account: 31 1140 1010 0000 5300 0500 1001 Address: ul. Jasna 22, 00-054 Warsaw, Tel .: 22 826 88 66 e-mail: fpdn@fpdn.org.pl