#Disability

Advancing the rights of Palestinian children with disabilities in Lebanon

Wafa Dakwar, MAP’s Senior Programme Officer in Lebanon, recently visited Al-Buss refugee camp to meet a family of Palestinian refugees being supported by the MAP-funded Sour Community Disability Project (SCDP).

“We can rebuild houses, but we can’t get back memories of our loved ones”

In the second of a two-part blog series, Haitham Saqqa, MAP’s Programme Assistant in Gaza, shares his account of the Israeli military offensive in Gaza in May and its impact on people with disabilities.

“Every child has the right to a safe space”: Opportunities to play and grow through circus skills in the West Bank

We spoke to Nayef Abdalla, a trainer at the Palestinian Circus School, who is working to bring circus skills and training to more than 300 children and young people across the West Bank.

“The situation was terrifying”: The impact of violence on people with disabilities in Gaza

Six people with disabilities were killed during Israel's 11-day military offensive on Gaza. We look at the impact of the violence on people with disabilities and highlight MAP's and our partners' response.

MAP briefs the UN on barriers to disability rights in the occupied Palestinian territory

Read about MAP's latest briefing on barriers to disability rights in the occupied Palestinian territory.

“Without this centre Ahmad would definitely not be in school”

The Community Based Rehabilitation Association, a new local partner for MAP, is one of the very few organisations in north Lebanon providing multi-disciplinary specialised services for children with disabilities and developmental delays.

Ahmad’s story: “We helped him believe in his abilities”

Read how MAP's partner in Lebanon is supporting Palestinian refugee children with learning difficulties to succeed at school.

“I didn’t imagine I’d walk again”

Ahlam is a 70-year-old Palestinian refugee who lives in Al-Buss refugee camp in Tyre, South Lebanon. A few months ago, she fell down the stairs and broke her hip. The doctor told her that she needed a hip replacement.

Learning with lightbulbs: Adapting education for refugee children with autism

Wafa Dakwar, MAP’s Senior Programme Officer in Lebanon, discusses how the MAP-supported Ghassan Kanafani Cultural Foundation’s Habilitation preschool, in Mar Elias camp, Beirut, helped seven-year-old Hasan and his family.

A helping hand to children with disabilities in Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps

Wafa Dakwar, MAP's Senior Programme Officer in Lebanon, met with Rana, a Palestinian refugee and mother of three, to hear about the difference MAP's disability programme has made to the lives of her and her children.

Collapse of healthcare for Palestinians in Lebanon inevitable without urgent action

Today Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) released a new report, warning that the health “system” for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon is scarcely fit for purpose.

Displacement and disability

Seventy years have now passed since the Nakba, or ‘Catastrophe’, when over 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from or fled their homes due to the actions of armed groups during the creation of the State of Israel. Around 100,000 of them found shelter in Lebanon.