Due to the growth of prices and increasing the minimum salary and contribution to the Menssana organization faced with difficulties.
Last week portal post.ba drew attention The Sarajevo Organization for Assistance to Persons with Mental Difficulties and Disabilities Menssan has faced minimal salaries and contributions for the growth of prices and contributions. Unfortunately, yesterday was published on their site on Facebook that the daily rehabilitation center was in which they worked daily with over eighty users and users, unfortunately forced to close their doors.
“We inform all our members, associates and friends that Menssan Association has been forced to make a decision we never thought we would have to make – the interruption of our daily rehabilitation center (DRC)”, stands in publication.
The associations stated that this decision was not the result of their will, nor a lack of effort or love for those who have been supporting daily, but the cruel consequences of increasingly unfavorable circumstances in which they are located. Increasing minimum wages, rental rental growth, and the absence of adequate support from the competent institutions have led to the Menssan Association in a situation that they are no longer able to fund the work of the Center.
To make the matter even worse, the new heavy shock was welcomed during the weekend – the quarterly suspension of the United States of America, which was ordered by the President Donald Trump. The President of the Association of Menssan Ornela Čolić says three people who are employed in this organization pay the salary from the USAID funding. Due to the nature of that project, they doubt that it will continue and after the quarterly moratorium expires:
“This specific project is concerned with the LGBT community that is not in the sphere of interest of Trump Politics, so we doubt that he will continue, and thanks to the funds from that project, we were able to maintain our daily center and work with people with mental difficulties. and a disability. “
This practically means that three people were in the employment contract – among which a pregnant woman – received a failure, because even with USAID funds could not be bridged by the Federal Government Regulation of Minimum Salary and Contribution. . There was a possibility that additional funds could be found through the project, but it seems that this suspension of the project financing has gone to the donation.
Although everyone is in the interest of the existence of a place where people with mental difficulties and disability benefit everyday care and attention, the municipality of the old town did not have hearing for this problem. The Municipality of Center has managed to offer a space of thirty-squares that can only serve for basic activities but not for the work of the DRC in full capacity. At the cantonal level, the jurisdiction is transferred between the Ministries of Health and Social Policy.
“We send our medical institutions to rehabilitation and resocialization, but we do not have any funds for that, so we have ‘damped’ from other projects to cover this. Most of that job we did literally volunteer. There were suggestions to move to mental health centers, but they are so subcapaciated that users have psychotherapy once in three months, and not someone keeping their occupying therapy and the like, “said Ornela Colic.
Some of the representatives in the cantonal assembly such as the Jelena Pekić represented their assistance in solving problems, but the decision is not visible.
The DRC was much more than a place – was home, the space of hope for people with disabilities. He was a place where the dreams were becoming reality, and the obstacles were destroyed with smiles and support. Our users were our friends, our family, our reason to be better every day. Just imagine how much this place meant to those who visited him – their families, who knew their loved ones had a place where they were accepted, loved and supported. Imagine the smiles that have learned here that they are valuable, capable and equal, “stands in emotional forgiveness from users published on the association page.
But also with all the problems that have hit the Association of Menssan and the Daily Rehalibration Center in such a short time, they do not lose hope. With the note that their mission continues in each individual who have helped, in every smile they shared in each step forward, refer to a call for assistance and support that would mean the continuation of work on the rehabilitation and resocialization of persons with mental difficulties and disability. .
“We invite all the people of a good heart, institution, organizations and individuals to recognize the need in our community for support for people with mental difficulties and disabilities and fight for those who are often invisible in the science eyes. If anything, we can learn from this, it is that solidarity has the power to change the world, even when everything seems lost, “their appeal is.
To find that this appeal encounters those who should take into account the interests of the community and that current difficulties will not mark the definitive end of the work of Menssan and their daily center, writes Akta.
