Moblinost Bitola

The Association of Persons with Physical Disabilities of Bitola, Demir Hisar and Resen – MOBILNOST Bitola is a non-governmental, non-profit and non-partisan organization of persons with physical disabilities located in Bitola, Republic of North Macedonia, with about 1100 registered members to date. Founded in 1987, at the initiative of the Union of Social-Humanitarian Organizations and originally named as the Association of physically disabled persons of Bitola, the organization later decided to expand its activities to two more municipalities in the Pelagonia Region – Demir Hisar and Resen.

MOBILNOST Bitola is an associate member of the National Union of Persons with Physical Disabilities of North Macedonia, and its main objective is to identify, register and activate persons with physical disabilities (cerebral palsy, paraplegia and quadriplegia, polio, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, amputations and other neuromuscular diseases), to advocate for their rights (of education, social and health care, employment and overall inclusion in the society), and to overcome the most important issue of accessibility.

In the past three and a half decades, MOBILNOST Bitola has achieved a lot of its goals, such as the improvement of accessibility in public spaces, in collaboration with institutions and organizations on local, national and international level, participating in multiple national and international projects, organizing workshops and events on various topics and aspects of the needs and challenges of the persons with physical disabilities.

Members of the Association are involved and are actively participating in various municipal and national bodies, providing the necessary insights for the introduction and implementation of respective laws and regulations, international declarations and conventions. Among the most important projects MOBILNOST Bitola has worked on is the Promotion of the Ratification and Implementation of United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2010, which the Republic of North Macedonia ratified the following year.