The National Center for Community Rehabilitation
concluded lectures about disability targeted 37 students of
the secondary level at El-Yarmouk School in Gaza. These
activities come under the plan proposed by the Awareness and
Guidance Program in the Center to the Ministry of Education
and which targets school students in the Prep. and secondary
levels by providing awareness and guidance about disability.
The lectures, held for 2 days in the amount of 2
hours a day, handled defining disability, its causes and
types, ways of preventing disability, and integrating the
disabled in schools. Furthermore, Mr. Hany Abu Zaid,
rehabilitation consultant of the NCCR, pointed out that
disability is only some personal dissimilarities between
people, which oblige them to follow the assisting and aiding
ways to facilitate their adaptation with their disability
and integration with the society. He also stated that laws
guaranteed for them the right to live with dignity as
humans, and the right to be integrated with the community
and its all aspects, with a special emphasis on integrating
them with education in schools and universities and all life
activities. He also highlighted the role of the educational
advisors in preparing and facilitating the integration of
the disabled student in the school with normal students by
putting good plans.
Abu Zaid tackled the importance of integration for
the disabled people, especially the social side of
integration and its role in making relationships with normal
colleagues and interacting with them in the community of
school.
Additionally, Abu Zaid discussed challenges facing
integrating the disabled like the entanglement of
responsibility of working with the disabled, lack of
statistics and information about the disabled in Gaza Strip,
and the lack of media programs and programs which deal with
the families.