Registration is now open for the training course ‘Barrier-free in action’ in Dnipro
02.12.2025
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The Luhansk Regional Association of Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (LAOOPD), in partnership with the Humanitarian Fund for Ukraine (UHF) and Volontariato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo (VIS), is announcing recruitment for participants in a three-day offline training course ‘Barrier-free in action: inclusion, protection, sustainability’.
The training is part of the project ‘Protection, health care and inclusion of vulnerable populations in Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions’.
Location: Dnipro
Dates: 17–19 December 2025
Format: offline, 3 days
Target audience:
representatives of social services, educational and medical institutions, as well as public organisations in the Synelnykivskyi, Pavlohradskyi and Nikopolskyi districts of Dnipropetrovsk region.
About the training
The aim of the training is to improve the ability of specialists to implement the principles of accessibility and inclusiveness in their daily professional activities.
The programme combines theoretical and practical modules and covers the following topics:
- assessment of accessibility of premises and services;
- ethical communication with children and people in vulnerable situations;
- counteracting gender-based violence;
- prevention of emotional burnout among specialists.
The trainers for the third stream are practitioners with experience in the field of social protection and inclusion. In particular, the head of the LAOI, Mykola Nadulychny, will join the training programme.
Participants will be provided with
- compensation for travel expenses to and from Dnipro;
- meals during training (coffee breaks and lunches);
- training materials;
- a certificate of course completion.
Registration at the link:
https://forms.gle/BvJM62JUih5tgnW6A
The deadline for applications is 16 December 2025 at 23:59.
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