( Completed Project )
In collaboration with Right in Life Society – Egypt
The progress of nations is measured with the extent of care and services provided to marginalized groups, in addition to ethnic and religious minorities, as well as persons with disabilities. The developed nations exert special attention to people with disabilities and provide them with the atmosphere, services and care that contribute to integrate them in society as actors playing an important role in their communities, who enjoy all rights and also bear their duties. The services provided to them are not a favor from one, but a right guaranteed to them by law and necessitated by humanity and morality.
But, unfortunately, this is not the case in developing countries where the ratio of disability is much higher compared to developed countries; both scientifically and humanly. Persons with disabilities in developing countries, according to WHO statistics, represent a large proportion of up to 10% of the total population, where intellectual disability represents the highest percentage of in this phenomenon, reaching up to more than 70% of these disabilities. However, in spite of the high proportion of people with intellectual disabilities in developing societies, yet the services provided to them are very limited and do not meet their basic needs.
Josoor Project to develop work in the field of intellectual disabilities in the governorates of Egypt
Believing in the right of every person with disability to a dignified life that respects his humanity and provide him with the ways of life on equal footing with the other of the members of the community, Nohoudh Endowment, with a group of civil society organizations in Egypt, most notably is the Right to Life Association, which works in the field of intellectual disability in Egypt’s villages and hamlets, initiated Josoor Project.
Josoor Project is a practical crystallization of the Association’s future plans to circulate its successful experience in all the governorates of Egypt, under the auspices and technical support by Nohodh Endowment in Kuwait. This project will work on transferring the experience of the Right to Life Association to the emerging associations in the villages and hamlets, so that to create successful models in all the governorates of Egypt, which may spread the proper thought and provide the basic services needed by persons with intellectual disabilities and their families, in addition to contributing to providing experiences that provide future culture that limit the problem of disability in Egypt through education and awareness programs about the causes of disability and how to reduce them.
This project shall be implemented in several phases and in cooperation with the civil competent institutions, licensed by official authorities in Egypt.