The Community Rehabilitation Section is one of Dura Municipality's key sections. It plays a leading role in promoting social development and including marginalized groups in the local community, through comprehensive programs and sustainable projects for persons with disabilities, women, and economically and socially vulnerable groups.
Main Objectives
Main Tasks and Activities
Current Key Activities
Partner Institutions in Service Delivery
Summary
Main Objectives
- Following up on all social cases that apply for assistance.
- Including persons with disabilities in all aspects of social, educational and economic life.
- Empowering women and strengthening their active participation in society, especially in economic and social fields.
- Supporting marginalized groups and meeting their needs through programs and initiatives that respond to local realities.
- Developing community entrepreneurship through women's productive projects and youth initiatives.
Main Tasks and Activities
- Supporting persons with disabilities by providing medical assistive devices, referrals or guidance to the relevant authorities, and helping them obtain their rights to education, work and a livelihood.
- Carrying out community activities in cooperation with local institutions.
- Organizing awareness events and school and community workshops.
- Organizing an annual camp for women and children, and the annual “Montajati” (My Products) bazaar showcasing products made by persons with disabilities and their families.
- Empowering women by following up on and supporting women's entrepreneurial projects and providing training and technical support.
- Carrying out regular community activities that strengthen the role of women, such as seminars, awareness meetings and cooperative projects.
- Forming women's neighborhood committees across the city to increase women's participation at the neighborhood and community level.
- Providing economic and social support to vulnerable women.
- Following up on all marginalized groups in the city and providing support as needed.
- Receiving and reviewing written requests from social cases and following them up with the relevant authorities.
- Providing suitable services and referrals according to each case's needs (such as treatment, education and shelter).
- Community networking and coordination
- Building effective partnerships with civil society organizations, local associations and youth initiatives.
- Coordinating with local and international supporters to expand programs and make them sustainable.
Current Key Activities
- A project forming women's neighborhood committees to increase women's involvement in local development.
- Women's entrepreneurship events supporting home-based businesses.
- Following up on social cases that have submitted written requests for assistance.
- Developing activities for persons with disabilities in schools and the local community as part of community inclusion programs.
Partner Institutions in Service Delivery
- Dura Al-Amal Charitable Society.
- National institutions such as the Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation, Caritas Jerusalem, the Bible Society and the Jerusalem Springs Society for Giving.
- International organizations such as TIKA.
- Dura Society for Persons with Disabilities.
- Prophet Noah Takiyya (charity kitchen).
- Dura Zakat Committee.
- Dura Youth Council.
- Palestine Red Crescent Society.
- Local councils, schools and civil society organizations in Dura.
- The local community.
Summary
- The Community Rehabilitation Section of Dura Municipality works to build an inclusive and fair community that enables all its members, especially women and persons with disabilities, to take an active part in public life.
- The Section balances direct humanitarian support with long-term initiatives that promote independence and dignity.
