The Lebanese Union for Persons with Motor Disabilities team follows up with disabled trainees in the south, who have been offered internship opportunities in private sector companies. In this context, the coordinator of the Federation’s Kitchen Project, Chef Walid Rizk, accompanied the trainee Mustafa Jahmi at Bahr Ovens in Tyre, as well as the trainee […]
The Lebanese Union for Persons with Motor Disabilities participated in a conference organized by the Arab NGO Network for Development in cooperation with the Coalition of Civil Organizations at the Basil Fuleihan Institute of the Lebanese Ministry of Finance, to discuss the mid-term report of the Universal Periodic Review mechanism on human rights in Lebanon. […]
Within the framework of psychosocial support for women, the Lebanese Federation for Persons with Motor Disabilities (LFMPD) implemented a program in the Manana area, in the southern town of Sarafand, targeting disabled and non-disabled Syrian women, under the title “Continuous Communication”.
Written by: Nagham Sharaf The news of women and girls being subjected to violence comes as a surprise despite its frequency, as if it is the first time we hear about it, whether through official news published in the media or those circulating on social media, and despite the wide awareness campaigns that affect public […]
Zahi Hassan Anissi was born in 2007 in Brazil, the firstborn of his parents, from the town of Ghazieh in southern Lebanon. As the days went by, his parents noticed that their two-year-old son did not respond to being called. He has poor eye contact and interaction with those around him, and is hypersensitive to […]
Not currently displaying “My Left Foot is a 1989 Irish film directed by Jim Sheridanand starring Daniel Day-Lewis. The true story of the movie is based on Christy Brown’s novel My Left Foot, which he wrote with his left foot. The movie tells the story of Christy Brown’s life from the moment he was born, […]
The explosion was the worst thing that could happen to an entire people, and even now it seems futile to write these words in the face of a reality that we have not been able to internalize, perhaps because it is too much for us to bear. We were in Beirut, and the last one […]
After a sixteen-year wait, Lebanon’s official alignment with the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) was ratified by the House of Representatives and promulgated by Law No. 291, dated April 12, 2022, and concluded by Cabinet Decision No. 42, dated February 6, 2023. Here we are in the first year after […]
More than two decades after the promulgation of Law 220/2000 on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Lebanon, obtaining any basic health right for this group of citizens requires a lot of demands and direct communication from organizations of persons with disabilities to the ministry and even direct communication with the minister himself. Why? […]
Excerpts from the Australian Embassy’s visit to our community kitchen yesterday in Mar Mikhael.
Our Kitchen participates in Eureka, which was founded by tourism companies specialized in hospitality services in 1994, to become a business meeting place for the food and beverage hospitality industry and a meeting place for global experts from the restaurant sector, food factories, companies and chefs. Exhibitions aim to discover new services and products, network […]
On April 11, 2023, Minister of Information Ziad Makkari received in his office a delegation from the “Coalition of Associations of Disabled Persons” headed by the President of the Lebanese Union for People with Motor Disabilities Silvana Al-Laqqis. During the meeting, the delegation raised the issue of the municipal elections on May 7, calling for […]
