EFFETA - Center of St. Francis of Sales, civic association, Nitra

Amount of the grant: 38 979 €

Objective of the project: The goal of the project is to eliminate the consequences of potential threats to children and youth with hearing impairment resulting from the existence of communication and information barriers. The tools used to meet the project goal will include prevention and intervention activities.

The main outputs of the project:

  • Involving children and youth with hearing impairment in the project activities implementation (100 children and young people with hearing impairment involved)
  • Involving healthy children and youth in the implementation of the project activities (100 intact children and young people involved)
  • Active support to attenuating both verbal and written forms of discriminating behaviour in the group of intact population (1 project)
  • Use of participative approach in working with hearing-impaired on the implementation of project activities by the project manager and project partners (3 NGOs)
  • Involving a new community (healthy peers) in solving the issue of communication needs and problems of children and young people with hearing impairment (1 new community of normally hearing peers) 
  • Expanding the work of the organisation focused on minimizing the communication threats for children and youth with hearing impairment (10 implemented activities, 100 involved children and young people)
  • Training of teachers, other educators, social workers, parents, other family members, and NGO employees (100 people involved in training activities)
  • Involving partnership organisations from donor countries (2 partners)
     

Websiteof the organization: http://effeta.sk

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