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Balkan Community Initiative Fund, in partnership with Soft Tulip Foundation from Netherlands, has conducted a three-day training on networking of civil society organizations with other stakeholders in local communities. The training took place in Hotel Šumadija in Belgrade, on April 27th to 29th.
The round table on the topic “Possibilities of employment of persons with intellectual disabilities within an open environment” organized by Association for Promotion of Inclusion – API and Group for Self Representation of API Serbia, took place in Belgrade, in the Official Hall of City Municipality Savski venac, on April 26th 2012 at 12 o'clock. This was the final activity of this organization as a partner on the project “Through employment Towards Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Serbia” implemented by Balkan Community Initiative Fund ( BCIF) in cooperation with Soft Tulip Foundation from Netherlands. The very important part of this event was the presentation of the Group for Self Representation of Persons with Intellectual Challenges of API Serbia, that was the focus of the intensive work of the last few months within the project... 
Working center where users could produce decorative and utility products from clay started to operate within the newly built “house in the center of the city” where Association for Help to Mentally Challenged Persons in Trstenik provides the service of day care for twenty five beneficiaries. With the support of instructors, experts in working with clay, both team members and beneficiaries have been trained to produce objects from clay and foundry mass. Within the project “Through Employment Towards Inclusion of People with Disability in Serbia” implemented by Balkan Community Initiative Fund, association has acquired pottery wheel, kiln, casts for objects production, as well as enough of other materials in order to operate without distractions... 
Association for promotion of inclusion – API Serbia has participated this year as well, together with its beneficiaries, at the Job Fair “Top Job” that took place on March 12th and 13th this year, at Belexpo center, in Belgrade. During two days of Job Fair the stand of this organization was really well visited. Some people were coming in search for a job, some, including employers, to learn about activities of API Serbia, and some people were asking about the meaning of the term “inclusion”. API employees and volunteers were responding to the questions of interested visitors, as well as beneficiaries who have used this opportunity to exhibit some of their products... 
