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Care is a priority at the Social Welfare Institutions.
Efforts are mobilized to provide full care to recipients at the
SWI and ensure the presence of a core family environment for
some time at least until the young becomes adult.
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Exploring
needs and providing integration
Social problems occur at any time, crisis
emerge and worsen everywhere, in town, or in remote areas
causing serious social problems like the loss of a family sole
supporter, or the abandoning of a newly born baby, or the
confrontation of youngsters to serious dangers, or the loss of
financial means impeding the insurance of substantial needs to a
disabled son, and many other examples. Exploring those needs,
setting forth plans to satisfying them, reaching out to the
needy and facilitating their integration in the society are
among the priorities of the SWI.
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Orienting the
Recipient to the proper care center within the SWI
Needs identification programs help SWI
professionals to channel and direct beneficiaries to the
specialized institutions according to their needs.
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Internal care
A tutor, who becomes a relational
reference to whom the recipient will have recourse in each
aspect of his life, supervises a group of 15 children or young
adults. The tutor lives with them in a substitute home place
within the institutions, taking full care of the child, keeping
contacts with his original family and monitoring his school
results
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Education
It is the basic right of recipients at the
SWI. More than two thirds of the recipients get their education
in 40 regular schools in line with the social integration
programs- spread all over the country with quite a high rate of
academic success.
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Special Education
Handicapped are offered special education through highly
advanced programs ensured by specialized tutors and advanced
technology.
Providing financial and in-kind assistance to needy widows.
Also, psychological support is provided through the regular
visits carried out by SWI social assistants.
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Health Care
Health care in the SWI is provided
according to health prevention, health education programs. The
medical corps includes 9 physicians with different
specializations (pediatrics, dentists, neurologist, geriatrics,
ENT and GP) supported by a staff of nurses as a complement to
the health mission. In addition, there are volunteer physicians
working for SWI from different specialization (mainly obstetrics
& gynecology, dermatology and urology).
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Vocational
Training
Once an adult, the recipients are oriented
towards one of the vocational centers at the SWI to pursue their
education in parallel with the vocational training, which
stretches, from two to four years, according to their abilities.
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Healthy
Nutrition & Growth
Recipients who lived some time in poverty
and deprivation are offered safe and balanced nutrition
necessary to their growth. Nutrition levels and healthy food
provision are set and defined according to international
standards and needs according to age.
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Rehabilitation
Young handicapped are provided with
rehabilitation programs in special branches as they are
evaluated and offered career preparation commensurate with their
abilities
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Elderly
Services for the third age: housing, care, recreational
activities, meeting their basic health and nutritious needs
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Children of Working Mothers
Kindergarten for children and babies of working moms who can’t
baby sit their children. It is a 7/7 and 24/24 service.
It is an institute for educating women that
didn’t have the chance to be educated during their youth. |
