Journal of Special Education and Rehabilitation

Veronik MURA, Zivko ANGELOVSKI

MEDICAL AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM IN INSTITUTION WHICH TAKES CARE OF SEVERE AND THE MOST SEVERE HANDICAPPED PEOPLE

Presentation of experiences, before all, from practical point of view in providing certain programmes for development ( economic, educational, cultural and medical ), is the basic substratum of this paper. The experiences included are of the French association for humanitarian support EKILIBAR, established 1984, providing activities in the Institute Demir Kapija, in the Republic of Macedonia, in the period from 1993 till now. It is also said that beside the support that is provided by this organization for reconstruction of the buildings of the Institute Demir Kapija, in a certain way and directly it has been involved in the educational process of personnel for improvement of living conditions of severe mentally retarded children accommodated there.