Project: Family Intervention Program: Information Booklets
Founded: 1974
Location: Mar Elias Camp, Beirut- Lebanon
The goal of this project was to provide strategies and assistance to families struggling to care for their special needs children and to impart knowledge to their community about children living with special needs. The Jerusalem Fund has a long-standing relationship with the Ghassan Kanafani Cultural Foundation. Since the habilitation preschool is the sole center of its kind within the Palestinian communities in Lebanon, education plays a significant part in promoting healthy families and training new physical therapists and specialists to treat children with a wide variety of special needs. Through a grant from The Jerusalem Fund, the GKC was able to continue a long- standing educational program to provide assistance to refugee families with children who continue to suffer from cerebral palsy and other muscular disabilities.
