Youth Centre

Dailusis Ornamentas is one of thirty NGOs of disabled people in Panevezys, founded in 1998 by the Board of Disabled Centre of Lithuania. It is one of very few organizations in Lithuania that gives priority to the disabled children and youth.

The National Program on Integrating the Disabled in Lithuania for the period of 2003-2012 was adopted in 2001. The program seeks to create systems of rehabilitation, economic and social integration of the disabled, to promote their human rights through full participation and ensuring equality of opportunities and development.

Dailusis Ornamentas was established with an aim to implement programs of education, training, employment, "abilities" development, professional activities, integration and rehabilitation. Seven disabled persons are employed by this institution and besides volunteers fifteen students work there as well. The organisation was founded in the premises of NGOs Headquarters and occupies an area of 150 m² with a mini-library, leisure centre and exhibition room. Dailusis Ornamentas is well equipped with computers, copying machine, furnace for ceramics, wood processing equipment, loom, sewing, knitting machines. The centre is financed from the resources allocated by state institutions, funds and programs.

Visitors of the Centre use all the equipment and material. Centre provides transportation services for project participants, arranges summer camps, youth forums, international and local sport games, overseas training. The Centre runs projects on partnership with not disabled and organises exhibitions and fairs.

The City Council incorporates national social policy into the planning process and decision making and continuously pays attention to developing rehabilitation, making the physical environment, housing, transportation, social and health services, education and work opportunities, cultural and social life accessible to all the disabled. Much has been achieved in these processes, especially in consolidating activities of NGOs of Disabled.