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Our Mission: We provide disabled people with the support they need to achieve independent and complete human living. We dream for a world, in which disabled people will have the opportunities to choose and to live an independent, quality and dignified life. |
2010 - European Year to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion31.12.2010Another year of “combating poverty and social exclusion” is over, though on European level this time. So what? The never ending isolation, caring, misery and DEPENDECE were the major features of the disabled people’ lives in Bulgaria. These are the truthful companians of all disabled people – children and adults, active and passive, rebels and conformists, sick and suffering helplesness – who are not able to enjoy the new Bulgarian highways, the new Sofia subway and all the rest of the achievements that the 2010 Bulgarian Government is proud of. They will continue to live in misery – with no access to the progress promised by this Government – unless fundamental changes are made in the[...] Evaluation of the ASSISTANT FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING service27.05.2009
DISABILITY RIGHTS WORKSHOP10.10.2008The Center for Independent Living starts a new project, which will be implemented in partnership with the Department of Sociology of the Sofia University and is funded by the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe. The project will involve university students in various activities aimed at the promotion of the social model of disability. The students will be engaged in critical analysis of policies and practices related to the day-to-day living of disabled people in Bulgaria – their inclusion in their natural communities of school or work, the local pub or the cinema… The results from the students’ work will be uploaded on the CIL website in the form of analyses and comments. An important[...] |
The Center for Independent Living – Sofia (CIL) is a Bulgarian non governmental, non profit organisation of disabled people. CIL has been working for a change in the governmental policy in the area of disabilities since 1995 by actively promoting the values of Independent Living and the application of the Social Model of disabilities. |
Students from Sofia University conducted a thorough evaluation of the ‘Assistant for Independent Living’ service provided by the municipality of Sofia. The evaluation was part of a project implemented by the Centre for Independent Living in partnership with the Department of Sociology of the Sofia University and funded by the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe. The project started at the end of November 2008 with a Disability Rights Workshop. During the workshop meetings various topics from the field of social policy and disabilities were discussed, such as the social model of disability, the participation of disabled people in the policy-making process, personal assistance and legislation. Students in political[...]