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SESOBEL

July 29, 2020

SESOBEL

Community Development

  • Community Leadership
  • Social Work
  • Income-generating activities

Education

  • Access
  • Extracurricular activities
  • Quality
  • School Management

Health and Nutrition

  • Nutrition
  • Prevention
  • Direct Intervention
  • Special Needs

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Year of Creation and Start of Partnership

1973

Partage’s Creation

1976

Partner’s Creation

1979

Start of partnership with Partage

2007

Network’s Birth

2019

Network’s Renewal through the launch of Partage RISE

Community Development

  • Social Work
  • Community Leadership
  • Income-generating activities

Publication of the handbook of associations in Lebanon, working with groups of parents with a common experience, working with the core group of parents to defend the cause of any child with a disability before society and state authorities and working with the siblings group of children to help them overcome difficulties with their brother or sister in a situation of disability and defend their cause in society.

SESOBEL is an active member of a lobbying group with the various ministries to ensure the needs of associations working with people with disabilities.

The centres of help through work or work of young people with disabilities and the mothers of the children.

Education

  • Access
  • Quality
  • Extracurricular activities
  • School Management

To enable children with disabilities to receive an education adapted to their specific needs.

To provide children with disabilities with quality education of the highest standards through adapted pedagogical approaches.

Organize cultural and recreational outings for children with disabilities, in order to give them access to different places and activities.

SESOBEL welcomes children with special needs directly into its classes from kindergarten to the end of high school.

Health and Nutrition

  • Direct intervention
  • Prevention
  • Nutrition
  • Special Needs

SESOBEL has quality medical facilities and highly qualified staff at its centre to provide the children with the regular care they need.

SESOBEL prevents disability-related nutritional disorders ranging from severe undernutrition to morbid obesity. Children or adults with physical disabilities, multiple disabilities or progressive illnesses are at high risk of developing swallowing disorders that lead to undernutrition. A multidisciplinary team made up of doctors, speech therapists and dieticians is required to diagnose eating disorders as well as the management, which is important to avoid complications such as enteral feeding. Similarly, obesity among young people with disabilities, such as those with Down’s syndrome, puts them at risk of developing medical problems. Prevention of these problems is important through a healthy, varied and diversified diet.

SESOBEL provides parents with information on healthy eating through parental guidance and training.

SESOBEL welcomes different types of disabilities: motor, intellectual (including Down’s syndrome), multiple disabilities and autism. SESOBEL offers care adapted to the needs of these children and young people. Their nutrition is under the supervision of a dietician who makes sure that each child receives an adequate diet (ground food, diet for diabetes, obesity…).

Project

Development of educational programmes

Project objective

Ensure the development of children with disabilities in all aspects of their lives and promote their social integration.

Emblematic activity presentation

“Inclusion of children with disabilities in public schools, a pilot and pioneering project in Lebanon. This project was born to meet the needs of children with slight disorders or difficulties in learning and requiring early education. However, these children with intellectual, sensory or motor disabilities, chronic illnesses, mild or moderate cerebral palsy, or with learning disorders or difficulties at school have higher learning abilities than children integrated in special education centres.

Moreover, the country’s school system was not adapted to the needs of these children: class size, traditional teaching method, overcrowded curriculum, lack of para-medical staff. SESOBEL, took the lead and started in October 2006 the School Inclusion of Children with Special Needs in collaboration with the public primary school in Jezzine in South Lebanon. The overall goal of inclusion is to ensure the good development of the child in an inclusive context by working with families, schools and the environment. It has two systems of inclusion:

1- Total Inclusion with learners with disorders or difficulties in a regular class: the student spends all his time in school, except for possible therapeutic supports that could take place in school or outside.

2- Partial Inclusion with learners with an intellectual or motor disability in a specialized class within the school: the student spends only part of the normal school time. At the other time, he follows other activities with appropriate re-education.

Project beneficiaries

Direct beneficiaries

0
161

Children

0
469

Adults

Indirects beneficiaries

0
251

Children

0
573

Adults