Pāvels Beļisovs, Director of NVA Employment agency's event Department, Ivars Balodis, member of the "Apeirons" community, Brigita Dreiže, public administration specialist of Liepāja's local Government Administration, Andris Jankovskis, Deputy Chairman of the South Kurzeme municipality Council , Baiba Sveile and Ilze Jonaite, coordinating experts of the ESF project “Sub-contracted jobs for unemployed persons” participated in the discussion. Sanita Vasiļjeva, director of the Ministry of Welfare's Social Policy planning and Development Department, and Imants Lipskis, Department of Labour market's Policy director. As well as Māris Ceirulis, Chairman of Liepāja's society for the blind, 10 employees from the society for the blind and 5 volunteer stakeholders.
The discussion discussed problems and opportunities in employment of people with disabilities, current employment support programmes for people with disabilities are- state policy guidelines in employment of people with disabilities, support from Liepajā's local government for people with disabilities, ensuring employment, support from the local government Council of South Kurzeme municipality for people with disabilities, NVA's experience in promoting employment for people with disabilities gave insight into work of the national Council on disability matters and co-operation thereof with State and local government institutions.

We would like to say a big thank you to everyone in the discussion, we believe that together, we will be able to find the best solutions to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities.
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The measure is supported financially by the Society Integration Foundation from the State budget resources of Latvia's Ministry of Culture. The project “Informēts un zinošs darbinieks – labs palīgs savam līdzcilvēkam.” has been prepared with financial support from the Society Integration Foundation from the State budget resources of Latvia. The Liepaja society for the blind is responsible for the content of the project “Informēts un zinošs darbinieks – labs palīgs savam līdzcilvēkam.”
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