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Strengths, weaknesses and capacities of non-profit organizations
working with young people with visual impairments:
What Associations Can and Cannot Yet – Offer Young People with Visual
Impairment
When talking about young people with visual impairment, most public
discussions circle around schools, assistive technologies, scholarships or
specialised programmes. Far less attention is given to the place where many
of these young people receive their first real support, practical guidance and a
sense of belonging: their associations.
Within the European ERASMUS+ project Youth IMPACT: Youth Integration
and Motivation for Positive Achievement and Capacity Transformation, led by
the Croatian Blind Union in partnership with umbrella organisations from
Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Cypriot research
centre Emphasys, a comprehensive study was conducted to examine what
local associations can offer to young people and what they still lack. With 42
out of 53 associations participating, the research provides one of the clearest
regional overviews of the