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Supporting People with Disabilities

Location Targeted group Partners Activities and objectives

Sultanate of Oman People with disabilities Ministry of Social Development Providing various compensatory
and associations for the equipment and furnishing facilities

disabled of some assocaitions to contribute
to improving the quality of services
provided for the disables

Results and outputs

• Providing various compensatory equipment for people with disabilities, in cooperation with the Ministry of Social Development, the
Omani Association for the Disabled, the Omani Association for the Hearing Impaired and the Al-Noor Association for the Blind
• Providing Braille devices to a number of blind students at Sultan Qaboos University and the Nizwa University to help them improve their
education and learning

• Establishing a multi-purpose hall for the branch of the Al-Noor Association for the Blind in Nizwa
• Rehabilitation of training rooms in the Association for the Welfare of Handicapped Children in Muscat and Jaalan Bani Bu Hassan

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