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The Republic Center for Support of Persons with Intellectual Disability – PORAKA in its 50 years of work, has the professional and methodological support to its local branches as a permanent programme activity. This coordination with its membership brought the Republic Center – PORAKA to realize that persons with intellectual disability and their parents lack […]

Joint activities of the Republic center – PORAKA with the National Unions – members of the National Council of Disability Organizations of Macedonia The Republic center for Support of Persons with Intellectual Disability – PORAKA as a member of the National Council of Disability Organizations of Macedonia (NCDOM) actively participated in realization of programme activities

The observance of 3 December, International Day of Persons with Disabilities, involved members of PORAKA Stip together with their parents and the personnel. In the morning they visited the Secondary school “Iskra” in Stip, where some of them have finished the secondary education. The event for observance of the day had informative and entertaining part.

How do the disabled persons live? This question has been responded to the employees of Komercijalna Banka AD Skopje at 4.12.2013 in the Day center for persons with intellectual disability- PORAKA Skopje. “Poraka has been existing here for 50 years now and this is a jubilee, when we found out that we know little about

The Republic Center for Support of persons with Intellectual Disability – PORAKA is civil, parents, national non for profit disability organization, which represents the rights and interests of more than 20.000 persons with intellectual disability in the Republic of Macedonia. It is established in 1963 as Union of societies for helping mentally retarded persons in

According its 2013 Programme for Work, the Republic Center for Support of Persons with Intellectual Disability – PORAKA, in the period from 2nd to 6th of September 2013 organized and conducted sports and recreational activities for the beneficiaries of the day centers of the Republic Center – PORAKA. As a result of the positive effects

The right to health is an internationally recognized right. This right is defined for the first time by the World Health Organization as “a right of everyone to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health”. The right to health is closely linked to the protection of patients’ rights which represent a set of

The humanity of Mr. Nikolajco Nikolov, vice-general director of the Mine Bucim, as one of the biggest supporters of the work in the day centre PORAKA Radovis is once again proven. This time, Mr. Nikolov, together with his colleague Dragan Smilkovski, Director of the factory restaurant, visited the beneficiaries of the day centre PORAKA Radovis

“The Little Prince” got a new perspective, perhaps as it was meant by Exupéry himself. Just to feel and to behave as your heart leads you. Without masks, as only children know.Performance by persons with intellectual disability One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye… The most famous

The Universal Periodic Review “has great potential to promote and protect human rights in the darkest corners of the world.” – Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique process which involves a review of the human rights records of all UN Member States. The UPR is a State-driven process, under