SIAE awards for learning and knowledge promotion 2001
Awards to individuals for outstanding achievements in lifelong learning
Roy Goreya from Brezje
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"I can view what happened to me either as the greatest punishment, or as a gift. I decided!"
"Where there's a will there's a way." This important principle could apply to any of this year's award winners, but it was also chosen as a guiding principle and the title of his book by Roy GOREYA, an economics graduate employed by the Disabled Forum of Slovenia Society as a public relations adviser. By the time he started school, Roy Goreya had already lost 95% of his hearing, but refused to succumb to pessimism. His parents and doctors encouraged him to persist, and in the regular programme, he completed not just primary school but also secondary economics school. The desire for knowledge was too strong for him to stop. He enrolled at the Faculty of Economic in Ljubljana to study marketing, and was the first hearing-impaired graduate. During his studies, he also learnt rhetoric and public speaking.
The most thorny part of his path came after completing his studies, where his hearing aid meant for a long time that he could not find employment. But difficult experiences did not discourage him. He gathered them together in a book, which was published in spring. He intended it for people who - despite difficulties - want to consolidate the path to personal success. "I can view what happened to me as the worst punishment, or as a gift. I chose a gift," he informs us.
In the working environment he likes to say that people with special needs become accustomed to self-respect and self-help, he instils self-confidence in the unemployed, and he also prepares his own educational programme with the aim of encouraging people towards self-development.
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Slovenije, datum zadnje spremembe:
10.06.2019, 13:35,
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Računalniška izvedba: Franci Lajovic, grafična zasnova: David Fartek
urednica: mag. Zvonka Pangerc Pahernik
"I can view what happened to me either as the greatest punishment, or as a gift. I decided!"
