The Peace Center operates a number of core programs creating a complete environment and support structure for the visually impaired. Whether it is through our educational program which is based on the Curriculum of the ministry of education, or through the self care program which boosts self-esteem and allows the members to care for themselves or even through our job creation program which create an income for the members and their families.
Education:
Our educational program which encompasses a wide range of subjects is approved and endorsed by the Palestinian ministry of education and focuses on enabling the student to study all the subjects needed to pass the high school examination, the Tawjihi and gives the students the opportunity to continue to University. We recently attended the graduation of one of our students at Al-Quds University. Our qualified teachers, who are also visually impaired, have received specialized training in relation to educating the disabled.
Self Care:
Many of our members arrive at the center lacking the ability to care for themselves as they had never been taught how to do so with their disability. Through intensive training, where members are taught various skills such as self-grooming, house cleaning, ironing, washing and caring for others, as well as through the independence they gain from living at the boarding house and caring for themselves; most members are able to be independent and live a normal life. The members also go beyond the household and are learning to cultivate their own produce on a seasonal basis. The members plant, care for and harvest eggplant, tomato, sweet peppers, zucchini, cauliflower, herbs and cucumber.
Job Security:
The blind and visually impaired suffer from the limited infrastructure present for the disables on the one hand and the isolation they receive from society at large on the other. At the Peace Center we offer the members many opportunities to secure a job and generate their own income. Whether it is through knitting wool garments for school children and the poor throughout the West Bank and Gaza; making jams, marmalades and juices, cookies and pastries to sell at bazaars and to the community. The center also operates a beauty salon which is managed by one of our partly deaf members who has received training in hair styling, manicure and pedicure.
To purchase items offered for sale on our site please click here, you can also choose to adopt a classroom or a family where we will deliver the garments or food products to them as a gift from you.
