Successful civil initiatives to embrace the missing family care and the elderly in Sweida

Sweida-Sana

He lost family care early, but he found it in the Social Welfare Association home in Swaida since the age of two years and today he has become a university student studying French literature and he is related to this place in which he grew up and cannot leave as mentioned.

The satisfaction of Shadi is found among the rest of the association’s inmates, including the 23-year-old, who, after four years of her presence in the association, succeeded in overcoming the psychological turmoil and violence she was subjected to from her husband.

As for Ramez, 43, who was begging and sleeping on the side of the road, the association embraced him and helped him as well, as he explained to the SANA reporter: "In overcoming the state of addiction to drinking alcoholic drinks that he was suffering from."

What strikes the association is the case of Hana Al-Halabi, who entered with her two sons 16 years ago after the death of her husband, and she was later appointed as a supervisor in the elderly section, and her son is still present in the association and continues his studies at the commercial secondary school while her daughter was helped to marry to achieve stability for her.

The association, according to its chairman, Naif Al-Badin, aims to shelter orphans and homeless people, take care of their health, clothing, food, education and everything necessary for their upbringing, as well as the disabled and the elderly, and take care of them in addition to combating begging by studying its causes and developing the necessary solutions to eliminate it and dealing with beggars in coordination with the Directorate of Social Affairs and Labor.

According to the association’s administrative director, Nawras Abu Fakhr, there are currently about 100 inmates in the association who are cared for in all psychological and behavioral aspects, medical follow-up, food, clothing, and accommodation by specialists and their educational follow-up through transferring them to kindergartens and schools in addition to allocating supplementary educational sessions to the association through a cadre of The volunteer teachers have received 10 inmates university vacations that secured them multiple job opportunities in the community.

Abu Fakhr indicated that there are currently 28 workers in the association in addition to ten volunteers in the field of additional teaching, and work is underway to expand the construction and create a section for young women.

Whereas, the supervisor in the male department, Anas Nader, a graduate of sociology, explained that care is provided to inmates, the psychological problems they suffer from, and the work to integrate them into the general activities inside and outside the association and to enhance their volunteer activities on an ongoing basis.

It is noteworthy that the association was established in 1948 in the name of the orphan house, and in 1971 the Association of the Blind, the Juvenile Observation Center and the Orphans and the Disabled were merged into one association called the Social Care Association.

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