Abdelrahman Fraag's Contact Details

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Al-Manarah Association for Arab persons with disabilities

Nazareth, North District, Israel • 4 Employees
Civic & Social Organization

Al-Manarah, which means "Lighthouse" in Arabic, was initiated in 2005 by a group of grassroots activists in order to advance the status of Arab persons with disabilities in Israel. It is the first Arab organization of its kind, and it meets a pressing need. More than 400,000 Arab persons with disabilities live in Israel. They face a lack of essential public services, and suffer widespread social exclusion and discrimination. Each year, thousands of persons with disabilities and more than 5,000 non-disabled persons from Arab communities throughout Israel benefit from Al-Manarah's services, training, and activities. Al-Manarah works to empower its core stakeholders in order to change attitudes towards persons with disabilities in Arab society. Our empowerment groups foster self-awareness and decision making among persons with disabilities while Al-Manarah's professional staff provide support and rights consultation. Al-Manarah's Library for the Print Disabled offers a broad range of Arabic-language audio, Braille, large-print and electronic resources. Through extensive workshops, seminars and the distribution of educational materials, Al-Manarah also works with families and a wider community of non-disabled stakeholders to open Arab society to the world of persons with disabilities. Furthermore, Al-Manarah works to ensure accessibility and compliance with human rights law through strategic legal advocacy and litigation on behalf of Arab persons with disabilities.Al-Manarah is one of the most successful Arab NGOs in Israel, each year receiving the Mihul Takin (The Certificate of Proper Management) by the Government of Israel. As the only Arab Israeli NGO/NPO it is also accredited with Midot's Seal of effectiveness (http://www.midot.org.il). Currently it has more than 150 volunteers and 8 core staff members and variety social, educational, music, art, sport, legal and advocacy programs. AlManarah serves in person to more than 5000 disabled. In addition more than 100,000 users with print disabilities are already registered on the ArabCast.org site, thus much more unregistered use it each day. The project was recently awarded the prestigious Mohammed Bin Rashid Arabic Language Award and the ZeroProject Award 2018 in Vienna. Director Abbass is also the first Arab-Israeli Ashoka' s innovators fellows and one of the top finalists of the 2018 Arab Hope Makers.