Regions - Eastern Europe
Our work in Eastern Europe has focused on helping to build a community of regionally-based organisations in South East Europe promoting the rights, full participation and equal opportunities of disabled people.
This comes at at time when poverty in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union has increased dramatically. The European Children's trust estimates that 168 million people were living in poverty in 1993-95 in the region, an increase from 14 million at the collapse of communism.
We have also supported HIV and AIDS initiatives in the Baltic Sea region. HIV and AIDS is a growing problem for the region through increased intravenous drug-use as well as sexual transmission.
Self Help and Advocacy in South East Europe
The SHARE-SEE partnership aims to build a community of regionally-based organisations in South East Europe, transforming the status of disability. It exists to promote the rights, full participation and equal opportunities of disabled people.
Connecting HIV and AIDS resource centres in the Baltic Sea region
The number of people living with HIV and AIDS is rapidly increasing in the Baltic Sea region, initially through injecting drug use but increasingly through sexual transmission.