The realization of the project of the first cross- border Health Care and Working Center for disabled persons in Globasnitz started with the signature of the contract end of August this year. The project foresees daily tutoring of 24 disabled persons, 18 of them from Southern Carinthia, 6 from Slovenia. The partner in the project is the Carinthian Caritas, which will also manage the Center.. It is planned that the building phase will be finished in some months, since the opening is foreseen already in March 2012. The value of the project is 1,6 milion Eur. Numerous honorary guests were present at the celebration at the occasion of the finished first phase, among others the Slovenian Minister of Labour, Family and Social Affairs dr.Ivan Svetlik, the Carinthian Country Governor Gerhard Dorfler, the Country Counsellor mag. Christian Ragger, the initator of the project and the AACC President Bernard Sadovnik, the Director of the Carinthian Caritas dr. Viktor Omelko and many others. All speakers agreed that this is the first case of such cross- border regional cooperation in the field of nursing and services for individuals with special needs. Services and care will be rendered in German and in Slovenian language, too. The participants discussed other projects as well, since- as the Governor Dorfler stressed- we do not have the problem of bilingual signs any more before our heads, but we have future before our eyes.
Photo: from the left: Contry Counselor Christian Ragger, Governor Gerhard Dorfler, Minister Ivan Svetlik and AACC President Bernard Sadovnik
