
Vaimupuu
MTÜ Vaimupuu
Tallinn, Estonia
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Founded in 2011, Vaimupuu is a non-profit association based in Tallinn, Estonia working on disability, education, arts & culture.
MTÜ Vaimupuu is an Estonian non-profit association founded in November 2011 in Tallinn. It works to make information and society more accessible for people with intellectual disabilities and their relatives, support staff and social workers. Its main activities are producing and sharing information in easy language, offering an easy-language editing and testing service, running a yearly photo competition, organising training courses (photography, glass art, media), summer schools and excursions. It also publishes easy-language articles on accessibility and disability rights and previously published the Vaimupuu magazine (2012–2021). It is funded by donations and sponsors, and donors may claim income tax relief as the association is on the Estonian list of tax-benefit non-profits.
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Vaimupuu fotokonkurss
Arts & Culture · Estonia
Annual photo competition for people with intellectual disabilities, begun in 2012. A jury selects the best entries for the Vaimupuu calendar and a travelling exhibition.
Lihtne keel (easy language) service
Disability · Estonia
Writes and edits texts in easy language and tests them with organisations of people with disabilities, providing easy-language summaries of articles and information.
Vaimupuu suvekool
Education · Estonia
Summer school for people with intellectual disabilities held at the Pedase recreation centre.
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