Social Awareness about Differently Abled in Egypt

Dear Alhassan donors, supporters and believers,

Thank you for donating for our initiatives for raising “Social Awareness about Differently Abled in Egypt” project. This project is mainly what our mission and vision are about. We believe that by changing the mentality of our community and how they perceive physically-challenged people, we will spend less time and effort demanding wheelchair users’ basic human rights; it’ll be a given to consider their needs.

We walk the talk. We promote and effectively implement inclusion in our foundation. Over 50% of our board and employees are differently abled persons! That makes us the first if not the only DPO (Disabled Persons’ Organization) in Egypt.

We believe that the fastest and most effective way to change people’s perception is showing them the real image of PWDs that they’re not aware of. Our goal is to make the society see that wheelchair users aren’t helpless, dependent and non-productive people. Accordingly, we always insist on having our gatherings in public places so people would see numerous wheelchair users socializing, being active and having fun.

Since Alhassan Foundation is the only organization that provides custom-made wheelchairs in Egypt, our most recent social awareness campaign was about how to choose the appropriate wheelchair for each injury.

A customised wheelchair is an integral part of the lives of wheelchair users. Therefore, we were very keen on showing the importance of the customized wheelchair and demonstrating the amount of side effects that a regular wheelchair may cause.

Thanks to God and to all the supporters of Alhassan FDN. This campaign was able to achieve great success, which led to the ease of repeating that experience in many other schools.

Thank you dear donors for your donations; your support is what enables us in our mission so we urge you to continue supporting our cause and stay loyal donors to our cause through subscribing to a monthly recurring donation option. That will help kids on wheelchair in Egypt be more confident and accomplished.

Please visit our Facebook page to read other success stories:

https://www.facebook.com/AlhassanFDN/

Thank you for believing in the differently abled. :)

Dear Alhassan Foundation’s friends, believers and supporters,

Thanks to your generous donations we were able to offer the much needed physical, psychological and social empowering services to our beneficiaries. Starting from providing tutorials on how to become physically independent to peer counseling sessions that foster healthy attitude towards one’s challenge and finally  helping couples achieve their dreams of having a baby! Click here to know more about Bliss.

One of the most difficult tasks facing us at AlHassan Foundation is to rehabilitate the newly injured psychologically. From my personal experience as a wheelchair user, it is very difficult to accept psychological rehabilitation from abled people as they didn't go through the same emotional experience.

You keep convincing yourself that people can’t understand your suffering and the difficulties and challenges that you're facing on a daily basis as a wheelchair user.

Therefore, we are always in AlHassan Foundation keen on meeting with new members in social gatherings, in order to provide them with psychological rehabilitation, and this is implemented through an elite group of experts (real life experience) from the Foundation’s team who are also wheelchair users.

The following pictures represent the latest gatherings carried out by Alhassan Foundation in El-Sharqia governorate.

During this gathering, a well-trained team from Alhassan Foundation provided psychological rehabilitation sessions to more than 90 new members of wheelchair users.

At Alhassan Foundation, We truly believe that each wheelchair user has the ability to achieve whatever they desire, whether at the level of study, work, playing sports, getting married and building a financially independent family. This is achieved through meeting the new members of the Foundation and providing them with psychological rehabilitation by well-trained individuals (wheelchair users) from the Foundation’s teamwork.

We hope that these photos can show how much happiness AlHassan Foundation brings to its members.

We want to thank every donor or supporter who helps us to achieve this success and we urge you to continue supporting us in our cause, our hope, our dream through subscribing to monthly donation which helps us secure enough funds to help more wheelchairs users and their families.

Please visit our Facebook page to read other success stories:

https://www.facebook.com/AlhassanFDN/
 
Thank you for believing in the differently abled. :)