LwT activists react to children with disabilities' problems in Dagestan

Children with developmental disorders need special conditions for acquiring professional skills, activists of the NGO "Life without Tears" (LwT) have stated and launched a project to train disabled children in professions.

January 27 saw the opening of the technology department for teens with disabilities' independent living at the Daytime Care Centre of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization to Help the Disabled "Life without Tears" (LwT), Aishat Gamzaeva, the LwT director, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The workshops of the Centre will run, permanently and free of charge, training of children in woodworking, pottery, candle making, beadwork, sewing, computer literacy, home economics and cooking. About 40 teenagers aged 15 and up, who attend the Daytime Care Centre, also are trained in the workshops.

The project is unique in that only at the above Centre children with mental and psychophysical disorders, including autism, Down's syndrome and mental retardation, are trained in the listed profession, Ms Gamzaeva has pointed out.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on January 31, 2022 at 09:17 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.