Description of the partners:

Title: Ofensiva Tinerilor

Website: www.ofetin.ro

Facebook: www.facebook.com/OfensivaTinerilorArad

E-mail: ofensivainfo@gmail.com

Phone: 0040 785.221.973

Address: Str. M. Eminescu, no. 6, ap. 12, Arad, Romania

 

Short description of the organization’s goals and mission (200 words):

Ofensiva Tinerilor provides youngsters with alternative educational opportunities by involving them in different non-formal activities, promoting international mobility and cooperation and supporting the social and economical integration of people with a disadvantaged background. Our vision is to help youngsters achieve their full potential through non-formal education.

Brief description of activities (300 words):

Youth, Integration of people with a disadvantaged background, Non-formal education, European cooperation.

"Ofensiva Tinerilor” Association was founded in 2004 by a team of dedicated youth workers who wanted to offer young people accessible educational opportunities that would help them achieve their full potential. This remained our mission ever since.

 

An essential element of our work is the European cooperation and exchange, as a mean to supporting persons belonging to different backgrounds to embrace cultural diversity, understand the common European values and develop responsibility in the community.

 

Since 2014 we are member of the European Peer Training Organization, sharing a common vision: “People enjoy learning from each other how to embrace their differences and realize their unique potential”. In the spirit of this vision, we have implemented several peer-education programmes on various topics like: diversity and anti-discrimination, religious diversity, gender equality, inner-diversity. Also, together with partners from five Balkan countries we have developed the “Peers for Inclusion” training methodology, aimed at creating the attitudes and offering the tools that youth workers need to become more inclusive in their work towards persons with disabilities. At local level, since 2014 we hade more than 600 beneficiaries of these programmes, including young people, youth workers and teachers.

 

Legislation in the country in the context of the project (500 words):

 

The rights of persons with disabilities are regulated in Romania by the law no. 448/2006 (updated in 2016) on the protection and promotion of the rights of people with disabilities.

Persons possessing a certificate stating a severe disability benefit from fiscal facilities such as, for example, various exemptions from taxes and duties.

 In order to provide recovery/rehabilitation assistance, persons with disabilities are entitled to:

• free medical clinic facilities, according to the list and under the conditions stipulated in the framework contract on the conditions of granting health care under the social health insurance system and its implementing rules;
• free of charge accommodation and meals, for the person accompanying the child with a severe or accentuated disability and also for the adult with a severe or accentuated disability  in the sanitary units with beds, sanatoriums and spa resorts, at the recommendation of the general practitioner or the specialist, provided by to the Single National Health Insurance Fund, according to the framework contract on the conditions for granting medical assistance under the social health insurance system;
• a free spa treatment ticket during one year based on the individual rehabilitation and social integration program and the recommendation of the general practitioner or a specialist.

Transportation

Persons with a high degree of disability benefit from the free of charge interurban transport at their choice - train, bus, river transport for 6 round trips per year.

Persons with severe disabilities and their personal assistant benefit from the free of charge interurban transport at their choice - train, bus, river transport vessel for 12 round trips per year.

Persons with severe or accentuated disabilities benefit from free on all lines urban transportation, public transport on the surface and by metro. The ticket for urban transport is valid throughout the country, being recognized by all local transport companies.

Starting from January 1, 2016, the level of social statuses has been updated.

Also, persons with severe and accentuated disabilities in Romania have a number of rights and facilities about which they or their personal assistant can request information from a non-governmental association from the community.