NGOs partnership of multiethnic Voluntary Promotional Program – DMD creates new alliances and coalitions to promote new Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities Kosova wide.

Voluntary Promotional Program of DMD (Disability Mentoring Days) has made great progress to ensure that opportunities are accessible to everyone who is willing and able to work and to build on the progress of the fully integrate men and women with disabilities into all aspects of life without discrimination and keeps New Freedom Initiative - Americans’ idea that was implementing in Kosovo and it has helped expand access to technology, training, and education for citizens with disabilities.

Campaign “ October – DMD Month “ of professional abilities to persons with disabilities has an objective to fight against poverty, decrease unemployment, promoting increased access into daily community life and fight against the discrimination with which the persons with disabilities are faced everyday. Also, this campaign of DMD promotes the new Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its implementation in Kosovo. It is worth mentioning that Kosovo has also actively contributed its input in drafting the wording of its text.

The campaign ‘’October – DMD Month’’ is a New Freedom Initiative which started in the USA and its goal is to increase access to equal opportunities for employment for persons with disabilities so eliminating the barriers that prevent persons with disabilities from participating fully in community life.

We appeal to the Government, to Governments’ Institutions, to private business and craft workshops that during the DMD Month of October they offer this opportunity to persons with disabilities and provide promotional employment for one or several days in their institutions.

In kind contribution by: Ministry of Health

Opening ceremony the campaign

05 October - Pristina

This event gathered representatives from Government, Public Institutions, private sector and members from NGOs by partnership of multiethnic Voluntary Promotional Program of DMD.

			Ms. Hiljmnijeta Apuk, President of local NGO Little People of Kosovo, chairs the opening ceremony of the one-month campaign "October - Month of Professional Abilities of Persons with Disabilities”.		Speakers during the opening ceremony from OSCE Mission in Kosovo, USA Office Pristina, Ministry of Health, Advisory Office of Good Governance and Role of Law and Municipality Prizren and coordinator from NGO Hendifer - Ferizaj.
	Members from multiethnic partnership of NGOs included in Program DMD						Members from multiethnic partnership of NGOs included in Program DMD

Advisory Office of Good Governance and Role of Law invited Press Conference regarding Disability Mentoring Day – DMD.

Closing ceremony of the campaign