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Many people with learning disabilities don’t experience any political participation as electors and don’t exercise their right to vote. The Equal Opportunities Centre for Disabled Persons is participating in an EU funded project that aims to modify this situation.

The overall objective of the project is to educate people with learning disabilities to get aware of their political rights and to form and express their informed opinion on the occasion of local, national and European elections and referenda, as any other European citizen. The project will be made in a partnership between nine organizations in six European countries.

Reading Representatives in Finland: "Reading is magic!"

- The feedback in Åboland has been very favorable, says Christina Grönholm about the project to build up an association with Reading Representatives. Christina works at Kårkulla nursing home in Pargas.

- Apart from Kårkulla, a nursing home quartering 90 people, there are 25 units in my area, daycentres and groupliving apartments, recounts Christina.
She is one of the three Reading Representatives working to establish the project in Åboland in the south of Finland. Christina phoned all the units and asked the employees to reflect on their reading habits at work.