Justice and Human Rights Egypt Project #29777

Social Awareness about Differently Abled in Egypt

by Alhassan Foundation for Differently Abled Inclusion

Social Awareness about Differently Abled in Egypt

Project Report | Sep 9, 2019
Living Life to the Fullest!

By Amany Tarek | Project Contributor

Alhassan with his teammates

Dear all Alhassan Foundation’s friends, believers & supporters,

Alhassan foundation is inviting you all to celebrate Spinal Cord Injury Day! This day was first initiated by international Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS) to observe ‘Spinal Cord Injury Day’ on 5th September every year with the intention of increasing awareness amongst the general public. This year’s slogan is ‘Living Life to the Fullest’.

Some think that life stops after a spinal cord injury that leads people to be permanent wheelchair users. We seek to differ, you can live your life to the fullest and enjoy the activities you love. Yes, it’s a challenge and not an easy one but what is life without some challenges.

Alhassan here is living proof of this year’s slogan. After the traumatic accident he’s been through as a teenager that caused him paraplegia, he decided that his life isn’t going to end there. He traveled abroad, and started playing wheelchair basketball. Not only that, but also he pursued his bachelor then masters degree and he does various fun activities that he enjoys. Alhassan’s vision is to get back to Egypt to start a national wheelchair basketball team in Egypt.

As a social awareness initiative, we hold gatherings every 2 to 3 months throughout Egypt to raise awareness about PWD’s rights and needs; helping wheelchair users adopt the “Yes I Can” attitude and instill the concept that you’re not disabled you are Differently Abled.

We encourage you to continue supporting us and staying loyal donor to our causes through subscribing to a monthly recurring donation option. That will help wheelchair users in Egypt be more independent and successful. Please visit our Facebook page to read other success stories:

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

Thank you for believing in the differently abled. :)

Alhassan supporting Egypt in Russia

Spinal Cord Injury Day

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Jul 18, 2019
You Can..And More!

By Maryam Mehanna | Project Contributor

We are the Differently Abled

Dear Alhassan’s Donors,

We do highly thank you for your last donation. You have supported in the change of people’s life. Your support made a change for people whom are physically challenged. Social awareness is one of our main core projects. Our target is to change the misconceptions of our society that engraved in their thoughts. The physically challenged people are “differently- abled” in their own ways. We focus on this concept by spreading it via all our channels and through our events, speeches and lectures at schools and universities.

We had a great impact on our community. We were able to hold an “awareness campaign” with the Cairo University . We met up with teaching staff and students, we talked about the importance of changing the misconceptions related to the physically challenged people and focused on the importance of inclusion. We highlighted on the importance of accessibility all around the university as the differently abled person has the right to move around freely without any barriers.

The audience were so much engaged as two of our members were telling their stories while they were students in their respective universities. Alaa, and Rania tackled the obstacles they faced while being at college such as lack of accessibility inside the campus, lack of inclusion and lack of social awareness. In this campaign, they gave solutions for these problems. Moreover, we met 21 wheelchair users of students joining different colleges. They also shared their experience and they learned from our campaign as well. Therefore, social awareness is one of the most impactful projects. Your kind donation will help a lot in changing the mindsets by holding such events for awareness across all Egypt’s 27 governorates.

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

Thank you for believing in the differently abled. :)

Our social gatherings and awareness events

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Apr 22, 2019
Accessibility Awareness Campaign in Cairo - Egypt

By Maryam Mehanna | Project Contributor

Our spekers -From the right Mariam - Rania - Alaa

Dear Alhassan’s Donors,

We do highly thank you for your last donation. You have participated in the change of people with disabilities’ lives. Social awareness is one of our main core projects. Our target is to change the misconceptions of our society that engraved in their thoughts. The physically challenged people are “differently-abled” in their own ways. We focus on this concept by spreading it via all channels as events, speeches and lectures at schools, universities, and public places.

Last week, we had a great impact on our community. We were able to hold an “awareness campaign” with the British University in Cairo - Egypt. We met up with teaching staff and students, we talked about the importance of changing the misconceptions related to the physically challenged people and focused on the importance of inclusion. We highlighted on the importance of accessibility all around the university campus and beyond as the differently abled person has the right to move around freely without any barriers.

The audience were so much engaged as three of our members were sharing their stories while they were students at universities. Alaa, Rania and Mariam tackled the obstacles they faced while being in college, such as lack of accessibility in campus, lack of inclusion and lack of social awareness. In this part of the campaign, they suggested solutions for these problems. Therefore, social awareness is one of our core projects. Your kind donation will help a lot in changing the society’s mindsets by holding such events for awareness.

Lately, we won an honorary award of Zero Project Conference 2019 to acknowledge that we are sustainable in our mission and vision and we are always seeking for the betterment of life for physically challenged people through changing their disability into ability. This Award ceremony was held in the UN premises in Vienna which focused on Independent Living and Political Participation. This honorary award is not only for us, it is for you as well our donor.

Congratulations for all of us. We encourage you to continue supporting us and staying loyal donor to our causes through subscribing to a monthly recurring donation option. That will help wheelchair users in Egypt be more independent and successful. Please visit our Facebook page to read other success stories:

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

Thank you for believing in the differently abled. :)

Our speakers sharing their stories

Event host

Audience - students and staff

Audience during the event

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