Recognizing the importance of serving all of the city's residents, especially marginalized groups, Dura Municipality provided a 3-dunum plot of land, at a cost of 150,000 dinars, to build a rehabilitation center for people with special needs. The first floor's structure was built through the emergency employment project funded by the Dutch and Norwegian governments, at a cost of 66,000 dollars. Finishing the first floor and building and finishing the second floor were funded through the Italian city of Siena with 200,000 euros. The center is currently run by a board of directors and an administrative team.
Objectives of the Center
Sections of the Center
Services Provided
Objectives of the Center
- Ensuring a dignified life for people with special needs of all disabilities.
- Ensuring the full inclusion of people with special needs of all disabilities in all areas of life, and empowering them in society.
- Ensuring equal rights for persons with disabilities.
- Breaking the isolation they live in, and motivating and encouraging them to interact with others.
- Working to change society's view of persons with disabilities and disability.
- Supporting the families of persons with disabilities and building their skills through awareness programs and workshops.
Sections of the Center
- Occupational Therapy Unit.
- Physiotherapy Unit.
- Special Education Unit.
- Outreach program
- Community Rehabilitation Unit.
- Visual rehabilitation.
- Library.
Services Provided
- The center provides occupational therapy and physiotherapy for children with disabilities up to the age of 18.
- The center provides education for students with disabilities through 3 special education classes.
- The center runs an outreach program of hearing and vision tests for people with special needs and for school students, through a specialized team.
- The center runs a CBR (community-based rehabilitation) program that reaches villages and remote areas to identify cases and refer them to the center.
- The center provides assistive technology through the Arab Society, such as hearing and vision aids, wheelchairs, orthopedic devices and cochlear implants; 3 cochlear implants have been provided, each costing $42,000.
- The center refers cases that need surgery to the relevant institutions for assistance.
- Recreational activities for children with special needs.