Last Update24 December 2013

El Amal Rehabilitation Society has Conducted many training shops for Women with disabilities in partnership with different local Societies.

 El Amal Rehabilitation Society- Rafah has conducted a group of training workshops in the " social media Skills " through the activities of the project INCLUDE – socio-economic empowerment of women with disabilities in the Gaza Strip ," in partnership with the Italian Assosiation  EDUCAID and funded by the European Union, which aims to promote the economic empowerment and social rights of women with disabilities in the Gaza Strip through consolidation , which includes different beneficiaries on different levels, from local NGOs and international organizations working in the disability field , and the local community , policy makers and community leaders. In addition to promoting the inclusion and empowerment of their economic and social rights , according to the agreements of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

The Project Coordinator , Mohammed al-Najjar pointed that  the overall objective of the implementation of the training workshop is to build the capacity of women with disabilities from 3 local organizations working in the field of disabilities and a partner in the project . The institutions are:

 1 - Society for the Care of Disabled Families - Rafah

2 – The National Society For Rehabilitation – Gaza Strip – Khanyounis

3 - Alasd qaa Association for People of Special Needs - Rafah

These workshops have targeted a number of (35) women with disabilities who are activists in the media field and interested in the issues of persons with disabilities from the age of ( 20-30 ) years , ( 10-12 activists of each institution )  have been nominated by partner institutions in the implementation of the project with EL Amal rehabilitation Society – Rafah.

Al Najjar indicated that the main objective for the implementation of training workshops is to improve and raise the capabilities of trainees in dealing with the media, and strengthening the role of the social media in the defense issues of people with disabilities, and to contribute to the development of media production in collaboration with partners in the project, besides the expression of the needs of women in general and women with disabilities in the Gaza Strip in particular.

With regard to the syllabus of the training Doaa Harb - field coordinator in the project emphasized that it has been implemented a number of (15) training workshops on a range of media skills represented in three major themes are: 1 - Writing Skills 2 - photography skills and 3 - video and film-making ..