NCCR Concludes Disability Lectures In El-Yarmouk School

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.