The employment of young people with disabilities will be discussed at an international conference in Vitebsk

November 10, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. The international conference "New Jobs: Ways and Means of Involving Young People with Disabilities in Labor Activities" will be held on November 16-17 in Vitebsk. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the Committee for Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee. The event will be attended by specialists from the social protection system, education, representatives of public organizations and enterprises (where people with disabilities are employed) of the Vitebsk region, and delegations from the city of Halmstad (Sweden). Specialists from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Brest and Kobrin have also been invited. The conference participants will familiarize themselves with the organization of employment for people with disabilities in the Vitebsk region and in Halmstad, and will exchange experiences and opinions on the possibilities of creating jobs for people in this category, and their broader involvement in labor activities. The event will be held within the framework of the Belarusian-Swedish project "Social Integration of Children and Youth with Disabilities in the Vitebsk Region", for the implementation of which the Swedish government allocated 130 thousand euros in 2009-2012. This is the second project between the Vitebsk region and Halmstad aimed at improving the lives of people with disabilities and financed by the Swedish side. Its goal is to improve the conditions and quality of life of children and youth with psychophysical development features. The second task is to break the negative stereotype in people's minds regarding people with disabilities. -0-