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Do you know...
In Europe approximately 15% of people
with disabilities has a degree of higher
education (Eurostat 2005).
In Portugal only 50% of highly qualified
third country nationals have held places
of high employment, while the
corresponding figure for the Portuguese
is much higher: 86%.
In Italy immigrants who have a high
level of education are percent more than
the Italians, but they work in lower
paid jobs.
In Switzerland, 11% of women with
full-time employment earned less than
3,000 francs a month, while only 2% of
men were in similar conditions (2002).
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MISSION
In
the social field we need a change of
paradigm.
From public welfare to help
people towards a self determined life
From charitable support to the right on
extensive social participation
From the service receiver to a customer
of a service provider
From separation to equal treatment
(segregation to integration)
From granted help to guaranteed help
From the solidarity of state to the
solidarity of citizens
From collective group measures to
individual measures
The ethical background of our mission
statement is the preamble of The Charter
of Fundamental Rights of the European
Union.
We sustain ourselves by believing in the
indivisible and universal values of
dignity, liberty, equality and
solidarity of every individual.
VALUES
The developed value of work remains
for all people the same:
The value of work comes in
3 functions (Riedelsperger):
Natural Function of human work –
securing existence
Social Function of human work – service
on community
Personal Function of human work –
development of personality
Natural function:
By work man gains a modest possibility
of existential security and gets the
change to overcome dependence. “If in a
society of employment existential
security can only be secured by
employment, the right to work is
essential for everyone.”
Social function:
Man is a social being, not finding its
fulfilment in isolation. Just in society
acceptance and solidarity can be
experienced. By its work man contributes
to create the requirements for human
coexistence in society.
Personal function:
Work is an essential part of human
development and acceptance in society.
It improves human abilities and
strengthens self-consciousness. Working
process and its result can’t be
separated from the working persons...
VISION
Is it reasonable to connect income
maintenance with gainful employment,
although more and more working places
get lost
Without gainful employment you are not
seen as an adequate citizen in a market
economy, or capitalism.You do not only
have no price for your product, i.e.
capacity work, but also no dignity.
(Quotation Bernd Marin). |
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