Doha: Best Buddies Initiative Qatar, a non-profitable NGO, under the umbrella of Qatar Foundation for Social Work, has announced the launch of the Career Development Program for qualifying people with disabilities and developing their abilities and potentials to suit the labour market.
Executive Director of Best Buddies Qatar, Laalei Abu Alfain, in an open meeting with the parents of the members of the Initiative, said that the Career development program, which will be launched on February 4, aims at exploiting and developing the abilities and capabilities of persons with disabilities and employing them to the maximum extent to achieve functional, social and economic independence, as well as empowering them, integrating them into society and enhancing their self-confidence through planning and implementing appropriate programs for their needs.
She pointed out that the year 2018 will see many activities and programs and events aimed at the integration of people with disabilities functionally in the community in cooperation with all the authorities in the country. She pointed that raising the level of community awareness and correcting the negative conceptions towards the capabilities and potential of these people is one of the main objectives of the initiative in the coming period.
Abu Alfain urged parent to support and participate in the programs and activities and to encourage their children to join them because of the great importance in the process of integration with the community as an active component of the comprehensive development witnessed by the State of Qatar.
Director of Rehabilitation and Integration Department, Mohammed Abdulrahman Al Sayyed, said that the Initiative sought to provide all the means of success to start a career development program for its members.
The program features a number of training and rehabilitation workshops covering functional, life and communication skills and professional and social behaviours desired in the work environment in addition to workshops on arts, drama and sports.
Best Buddies Qatar is a non-profitable governmental organization under the umbrella of Qatar Foundation for Social Work which aims to enhance life of people with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities through one-to-one long lasting meaningful friendships and their social integration. Besides, the organization intents to serve as a link among families and other social institutions to update them with the latest development and best practice in the field of disabilities.
