People with special needs do not enjoy equal opportunities in having an active role in the society they live in and are often excluded from it.
Organization of Persons with Muscular Dystrophy of Kosovo (OPMDK), through their initiatve "My step, my challenge" aimed to improve the living conditions of disabled persons, meaning that the responsible institutions undertake concrete steps to improve access for persons with special needs.
It also aimed to gain respect for equal rights for disabled persons, emphasising the fact that disabled persons play an active role in society and they show to the public and responsible institutions they are part of society and that they can and know how to present their skills.
Some of the activities organized included: engaging 10 OPMDK volunteers to collect data and photographs in Prizren to verify the access of disabled person to public institutions; preparation and printing of 100 T-shirts for participants with the slogan " Make a difference " ( Make a change); and the of organizzation a roundtable. In the area of sports were included: a competitions with electronic wheelchairs ( zig zag ) and non-electronic wheelchairs; a competition in table tennis and chess; a street ball race. Certificates were given to the winners of the race in different categories.