The Kaliningrad APPAREL:

• Since 1999 has been successfully working in Kaliningrad Region, the westernmost “amber territory” of Russia;
• Unites young (19 to 24 years old) disabled persons, protects their rights and legal interests, contributes to improving their living level and quality; 
• Promotes activating own personal reserves of disabled youth (instead of the psychology of passive waiting for help from the others); 
• Forms in the society conditions for self-supporting life of disabled persons, contributes to elimination of physical and psychological barriers that prevent from participating in the society life equal to other citizens;  
• Is supported by federal, regional and local administrative structures, public and commercial organizations, private persons; 
• Provides disabled people with free information & reference and consulting services; 
• Arranges training of employees and activists in different lines of public activity; 
• Takes part in development of new methods and models of rehabilitation of disabled people; 
• Actively uses advanced experience allowing to become stronger, more efficiently help our clients and more widely attract the public interest to our work; 
• Places in mass media information and problem materials aimed at improving the public opinion in regard to disabled people and their organizations; 
• Performs the work on methodical, informational and other kinds of help to social organizations that work in favor of disabled people; 
• Gathers and analyzes statutory acts, methodical and reference materials on the disability matters;  
• Doesn’t confine itself to contacts in own region and dynamically develops relations with organizations from other regions of Russia, supports direct international contacts with foreign partners; 
• Improves the efficiency of donations and renders assistance to donors in getting access to information on legal aspects of charitable activity and tax preferences; 
• Develops and strengthens the interaction between business, authorities and general public;  
• Tries to do its best to make the region inhabitants become aware of the scale of the existing problem and take adequate measures.