Referring to the growing influx of children with disabilities, and the importance of service quality provided by the respective accommodating institutions, daily and residential, the Malteser Consultation and Service Center, in collaboration with the Municipality of Shkodra and the Development Center in Shkodra, organized on 28 March 2014, the one-day roundtable: “People with disabilities in our focus”.
Representatives of various institutions participated: the Director of the State Social Service in Shkodra, the v/Director of “Projekti Shpresa”, the Director of the Development Center in Shkodra, the Special School “3 Dhjetori”, the Municipality of Shkodra, Malteser Albania, students and interested stakeholders, who firstly were introduced with the services offered in relevant institutions and then they were presented with the situation assessment on the capacity, opportunities, needs, services and ways of informing these institutions which deal with the treatment of disabled people, being focused on information share, building bridges among institutions of service and governmental, in order to enhance and identify services and integrating opportunities of these people.
In the end it was decided that such meetings be held more often, inviting other stakeholders take similar initiatives.
In the end it was decided that such meetings be held more often, inviting other stakeholders take similar initiatives.