My project - ASD coworking center

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Dear friends,
I would like to talk with you all about my future project - a specialised coworking center for ASD's persons in Belgrade, Serbia.
I'm sure you know what happened here in exYugoslavia during 90's, no one can imagine what hell passed autistic people.
After all that chaos, no matter if they living in Belgrade, Prishtina, Sarajevo or Skopje, autistic people are abandoned from societies, no chance to get a job.
No matter on the nation or the religion, we are one family,we should help eachother and my project is going in that way.
As the person with Asperger syndrom, my life was never easy, but again I didnt gave up,during all these years I was educated myself, I have got associate degree in Computer Sciences.
I shall continue to fight, I'm sure I shall do it well with my project same as that done Specialiterne, Auticon and other ASD friendly companies.
Main aim of the future coworking center is a life improvement of the local ASD people and boosting their creativity and talents.Main activity will be to provide a space for ASD's freelancers and startups, but there will be also next activities:
- workshops for kids,
- legal aid, especialy in the case of the discrimination,
- educations and training in various fields(ITC, art, crafts, foreign languages etc.)
- coaching of ASD's people about various topics(health,relationship,career,etc.)
Even this is a localy oriented projected, this is only a begining, I'm sure in a future there will be thousands of similar coworking centers around the world.
Whole project will start almost from nothing, I have around 300usd prepared for it, a funding target will be 50 000 usd.
I shall start a campain on the crowdfunding websites, but also i hope that Specialiterne and other companies foundations would join too.
Before all of that, I would like to hear your opinion, you are free to give critics and suggestions.
All you, those who are a project managers or have an expirience with making projects, are welcome to help me about project draft.
Also all of you who are good in video production, it would be good to create a short video about this project.
When the campains being started, I hope all of you will help with online promotions on social networks.
We ASD's people are a big family worldwide, no matter where we are living, we have same problems.
We have to be united and help eachother.
Respect to all of you.
Aleksandar.

P.S. for admin, please make this post sticky, thank you.

Welcome to WP. That sounds like a very ambitious goal. Do you live in or near a city where there would be enough autistic people who would be interested in, and could afford, a coworking space?

What would be your first step in getting the project started?

Good luck.