The target group for this youth exchange are young people aged 16 to 23, half of them disabled, the other half unimpaired with typical development.
There are 3 participant countries, Turkey, North Macedonia and Romania, so there will be 24 young participants, that means 8 participants/country. Each country group will consist of 4 visually disabled youngsters (2 girls and 2 boys) and 4 unimpaired youngsters (also 2 girls and 2 boys), English speaking, as the language of the project is English. There will be a gender balance in each group.
Apart from the participants, each national group will have 2 group leaders and 1 accompanying person in charge with taking care of the 4 visually disabled youngsters.
The young unimpaired persons will have the role to care each of a visually impaired youngster and to guide and help them throughout all daily activities.
The criteria for selecting will be fluency of English language, excellent behavior in the past, good communication skills, good health and active in the sport area.
UPDATE: Due to the fact that Republic of North Macedonia is a non-EU country, in order to be able to enter the territory of Romania, under current legislation, participants to the Ball for All project should be fully vaccinated, with a period of at least 14 days.
Unfortunately, our Macerdonian partner could not find participants to satisfy the above criteria, so that the partners unanimously decided to redistribute the 11 participants from Northern Macedonia to the Turkish team (5) and to the Romanian team (6).