LOCATION: Khartoum State, Omdurman District and Dar El Salaam Suburb

START OF ACTIVITY: 2000

GOAL: To promote the integral rehabilitation of children with disabilities in Sudan.

ORIGIN OF THE COMMITMENT: The request for intervention in the Central State of Khartoum by the government authorities and the local Church is linked to the long work for children with disabilities started in Juba in 1983. Work that has been recognized with relevant scientific competence and a qualified professional approach to the problem of disability. The first step was to promote in the social fabric, an action to raise awareness of the issues of prevention, rehabilitation and equal opportunities for people with disabilities, in a perspective of community development. The privileged way to achieve this result was identified in the promotion of a Local Association of people inserted in the social and cultural context of the complex Sudanese reality. In the spring of 1999, the "Usratuna Sudanese Association for Disabled Children" (USADC) was formally established, with the aim of offering a qualified response to the rehabilitation needs present in the Khartoum area, aimed above all at subjects in developmental age.

COMMITMENT DESCRIPTION: In the rehabilitation field, OVCI has launched in collaboration with the USADC Association a Community-Based Rehabilitation Program (now defined as Inclusive Community-Based Development), a program started in 2000 and developed in 3 intervention areas in the State of Khartoum, now managed independently by USADC. Since 2018, the area of intervention of inclusive community-based development has been expanded, including two orphanages of the Municipality of Khartoum where the SIBC program is directly followed by OVCI. In 2008, a Usratuna Rehabilitation Centre was inaugurated, where rehabilitation and speech therapy services are offered. To date, two offices are active, one in Omdurman and one in Dar El Salaam.

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