Our Mission:

We provide disabled people with the support they need to achieve independent and complete human living.

Our Vision:

We dream for a world, in which disabled people will have the opportunities to choose and to live an independent, quality and dignified life.

 Useful Internet Sites

• British Council of Disabled People (BCODP)
• Centre for Disability Studies – University of Leeds
• Independent Living Institute (ILI)
• National Council on Independent Living (NCIL)
• Independent Living USA (IL USA)
• Mountain State Centers for Independent Living (MTSTCIL)
• European Disability Forum (EDF)
• Disability Now
• UN disability homepage 

 Legal Resources

• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, World Health Organisation (2001)
• The Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities (1993)
• World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons (1982)
• Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons (1975)

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.