Health-Media e.V.

About us

Health Media is a non profit making organisation which has taken on the task of finding new ways of drawing public attention to the disabled, and increasing their acceptance in society. To this end, it initiates public actions and projects to support handicapped people, to overcome social exclusion and to bring the disabled and the able-bodied together, helping them to find common ground.

Thus one of our primary aims is to work towards more understanding and solidarity between the disabled and the able-bodied.

We use our web portals to publicize general information about disability – types of handicap, illnesses and alternative medicine – in order to increase familiarity with disability, to provide contact addresses and to increase understanding for these people’s fate.

Projects
• R4H – radio for barrier-free listeners: Germany’s first radio station with health topics as well as special news and information for and by people with handicap.
• “MobiCup Nord”: the largest German/Danish (handicapped) sport and health event of its kind in Schleswig Holstein.
• “R4H mobil” Tour: in 2011, participants with and without handicap negotiated an over 2,400 km course in four EU countries, on bicycles, handbikes, and special wheelchairs.
• The series ”I’m deaf, and I listen to Radio4 Handicaps”: was aired on R4H in 2010 (after the coverage of the winter paralympics in Vancouver).

Liane Schwarz is the President of Health-Media.

On request we can offer other net participants advice, give a presentation, and provide up to date information and contacts in the field of our work.