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The local committee for rehabilitation of disabled

The Local Committee for the Disabled in Al Fara'a camp was formally established in 1993 and activated in 1998. Due to the increasing number of disabled children some volunteers in the camp suggested the idea to establish the Committee. A number of contacts have been made in order to follow up all the problems related to this phenomenon. This work was started in 1998 with constructing a two-storey building that was finished in 2002. The first floor has a quite large playing hall for children with toys, physiotherapy room, and other rooms for teaching and conducting lectures. The second floor that has been recently finished consists of a large hall for Internet and administration.

The Committee and a number of specialists who work for the benefits of the disabled use the building. Moreover, there are a number of volunteers such as the Boy Scouts who work in cooperation with the Committee.

Objectives

1. Premature discovery of the disabled phenomena and
    treating cases instantly
2. Offering help and necessary rehabilitation for the disabled
3. Achieving a number of projects for the benefit of the disabled
4. Conducting courses and seminars for the people in the camp
    about the reasons of disabilities.
5. Establishing a library with a number of amusing books and stories
    for disabled children
6. Constructing a physiotherapy unit dealing with the special cases
7. Constructing a special unit for treatment of deaf and dumb.
8. Constructing a computer unit for the disabled and other special cases.

Achievements

1. Two-storey building
2. Data collection and registration of the disabled cases
3. Establishing a complete unit of computers and the Internet.
4. Availability of tools for the disabled
5. Building over 50 residence units with the help of UNRWA
6. Holding a number of activities for the children (camps and workshops)
7. Other activities in health care and first aid were also taken
    into consideration.
8. Teaching the sign language by a number of specialists.
9. Summer camps aiming at getting the disabled children together

Future plans

1. Establishing the unit for deaf and dumb people
2. Physiotherapy unit
3. Special library for the disabled children
4. Kindergarten for the disabled