News
- February 10, 2010: Pathways to Inclusion project launched
- January 20, 2010: ImPaCT in Europe Website Launched
- November 12, 2009: What about me? Welcome to Helsinki June 3rd – 4th 2010!
FAIDD – Access and participation for diverse people
The Finnish Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (FAIDD) promotes good life, equality and participation for people with intellectual disabilities and others who need support with learning, understanding and communicating.
Our goal is that all people can live together from an equal footing. This requires appropriate support and sufficient, quality services for people who need them and positive attitudes within the surrounding society. The starting point of our activities are the needs of people who are different and a sincere wish to remove obstacles from the path to a world that is open to all. Public and private services, education, work and culture need to be accessible to everyone.
In order to reach these goals, we exercise social influence and serve as a centre of knowledge and expertise and a cooperative forum. We engage in a wide range of cooperation with people with intellectual disabilities, their families, professionals in the field, service providers, organisations, businesses and public authorities. We also keep actively developing our domestic and international networks of cooperation.
