Through the project we wanted to achieve the following objectives: - to contribute to the increase of professional competences of youth workers through the exchange of good practices in the area of parasport (13 employees of the entities forming the partnership), - cause an increase in the key and social competences of children and young people in foster care, including young people with special needs (11 wards of the "Nasz Dom" foster care centre in Rumia), - contribute to the development of effective solutions in the area of non-formal education in the youth sector through the development, scaling and dissemination of good practices catalogued in a handbook for youth trainers, in particular sports trainers, - to popularise parasport, also as a means of social inclusion for children and young people.
We applied for the project because we wanted to contribute to the social inclusion of young people from a vulnerable group - alumni of an institutional foster care unit ("orphanage"). The implementation of the project, on the one hand, offered an opportunity to increase the competences of these 11 young people with limited access to education and, on the other hand, led to the development of universal solutions in the non-formal education sector for young people through staff mobility and joint work on a good practice handbook on the topic of parasport as a tool for social inclusion. The young people supported by the project are alumni with special needs as a result of having a disability certificate.