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ASSEDIPE
Association for Education and Development of Disabled People (Greece) is an educational non-profit NGO located in the north-east part of Greece where unemployment is one of the highest in the country (up to 16 %). Moreover, many people are forced to apply for early retirement being at age 50+, 55+ due to external reasons (e.g. reduction of working places, closing small and big factories and simply to leave vacancies for the youngest who hasn’t got a job). This socio-economic disadvantage is one of the main reasons for the lower-than-average income house which is a barrier in developing interests and enjoying their lives. Studying the concept of Lifelong Learning and finding new interests is one of the aims that our association has. There is not enough number of vocational educational centers for adults and consequently the early retired people, stagnancy, regress and both intellectual and physical inactivity deters the development of disable and elderly people.
As an answer to this reality ASEDDEDIPE wants to create and support alternative opportunities for vocational education including people without qualification, disabled, seniors and people socially excluded. ASEDDEDIPE aims to make them still active, to improve their competencies, knowledge and employment skills, create new opportunities for their lives. The association tries to make learners/ trainees confident in their knowledge and support their research for new interests. The proposed topic about gardening technique and Grundtvig Senior Volunteering Project subscribes into the strategy of ASEDDEDIPE development and is also the answer on local and regional needs in the sphere of seniors. Thanks to the partnership learners will improve their vocational, logistic, linguistic and technologic skills and will start a new interesting in the gardening sector. The role in the project is to share the knowledge of know-how in gardening techniques, to enhance European dimension of informal vocational education, to make intercultural dialogue, to strength contribution of people who belong to vulnerable groups, share the experience in partnership based on European Projects in Socrates/ LLP.
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