AFFILIATIONS

With the Government of Lebanon

The Government of Lebanon, through the Ministry of Social Affairs, provides financial support via a yearly contract of a certain number of beneficiaries. However, the Ministry of Social Affairs' resources do not permit to pay except for insignificant amount for each student's tuition.

FDA has a contract with the National Employment Institute at the Ministry of Labor to pay the students of the vocational training section stipends for onsite-jobs.

With local NGO's

FDA has established long standing relations with local NGO's on national level, such as

• The National Union of Parents and Institutional Associations for Intellectually Disabled. FDA has carried out to present date, the responsibility of this Union and chaired its BOD.
• FDA was nominated by the Lebanese National Organization for the Disabled to advocate and represent the disabled persons in Lebanon.

On the international level, FDA has affiliations with:

• Union of the Parents of Mentally Retarded Children in France (UNAPEI), a French national union of parents and friends organizations of intellectually disabled.
• The Arab Forum of Organizations for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities that represents the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region of Inclusion International.

Useful Information:

• We advise specialists and families to visit the Online Health Resources - Organizations resources - directory of Organizations related websites.