Targeting 45 students, the National Center for Community Rehabilitation concluded lectures about disability in Asad Al-Saftawi School in Gaza. This comes as a part of the plan proposed by the Awareness Program at the center to the Directory of Education and which targets both Prep and secondary levels school students to enlighten them about disability.

The lectures tackled defining disability as the negative implications for disorder or impairment which prevents the person from practicing his life normally, in addition to discussing causes of disability. Hani Abu Zaid, rehabilitation consultant in the NCCR, pointed out that some causes of disability are related to pregnancy, childbirth, and early childhood; and other causes are related to injuries and diseases like work accidents, traffic accidents and ignoring medical care; and causes related to social traditions and domestic problems like relatively marriage, divorce, addiction, social deprivation and economic problems.

Additionally, Abu Zaid discussed ways of preventing disability and most importantly vaccinating children against infectious diseases, observing growth and improvement of the child to prevent the impairment of becoming a complete disability. He also insisted on the necessity of the medical consultation in case of repetitive birth of disabled children in the same family to avoid the genetic factor, in addition to the overall check for the infants.

Abu Zaid also highlighted the importance of integrating the disabled by providing them with educational services beside their normal colleagues through the general educational systems. Also this can be done by solving the challenges that will obstruct this integration in Palestinian society like excluding issues of the disabled from the social priorities, inability of some of the disabled to reach their schools, and the lack of enough knowledge for teachers in dealing and adjusting with disabled children.

It is worthy to mention that the students who attended the lectures were chosen randomly from the majority of the classes at the school, in order to form a small and aware society which will reveal the experience they acquired to the rest of the students, and then to their families.