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MAP takes a social and rights-based approach to disability. We focus on removing the barriers to the participation in society by people with disabilities which complements medical care. Our projects provide rehabilitation support as well as advocating a rights-based approach to change practices and challenge public perceptions of disability by empowering people with disabilities to break down the barriers in the communities they live in.
In Lebanon, MAP supports the Palestinian Women’s Health Organisation and Sour Community Disability Programme’s Physiotherapy Centre and Early Intervention Units to provide physical rehabilitation and educational support to children with physical and mental disabilities living in refugee camps. The physiotherapy centre also provides therapy to young people, adults and elderly people with physical disabilities. The project includes an advocacy and awareness component, aiming at empowering the beneficiaries and their families and at promoting a cultural shift in community attitudes towards people with disabilities.
MAP supports community-based rehabilitation activities in the middle Area of Gaza to promote an inclusive and accessible society for people with disabilities by activating their full participation in their local communities. The project’s activities include job skills training, media and radio training, drama and psychosocial support for people with disabilities and their families.
In 2015-2016 provided:
4,388tHerapy sessions provided to 106 children with disabilities
In 2015-2016 provided:
30 psychosocial support sessions to people with disabilities, and213 family counselling sessions
Your donation could help MAP to reach even more people in need with our Disability services.