The Foundation for the Social Promotion of Culture joints the celebration on the 3rd December of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
The theme for this year’s International Day is “Achieving 17 Goals for the Future We Want”. This theme notes the recent adoption of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the role of these goals in building a more inclusive and equitable world for persons with disabilities.
On this Day we wish to pay tribute to all children with disabilities who receive treatment at the FPSC clinic in the Za’atari refugee camp and / or participate in the FPSC’s inclusive theater activity in the camp.
Accessibility and inclusion of persons with disabilities are fundamental rights recognized by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and are not only objectives, but also pre-requisites for the enjoyment of other rights.
The Za’atari refugee camp in northern Jordan is one of the largest refugee camps in the world. It currently houses almost 80,000 people from Syria who flee the war started in the country in 2011. The most vulnerable are refugees with disabilities, which represents 15% of the total.
The FPSC with its inclusive theater activity offers a space to generate participation, inclusion, creativity, psychosocial support (FPSC staff with experience in Peckham Shed Inclusive Theater, UK) and hope for the future.
The FPSC’s inclusive theater, run by professional staff and volunteers, with and witout disabilities, plays an important role in order to promote inclusion in the camp. Children and adolescents, both with and without disabilities, participate actively supporting and including everyone else in the group.
In order to support the inclusive theatre in Za’atari camp, FPSC has just launched the campaign #teatroporlavida: teatroporlavida.org
The work of the FPSC in Za’atari began in 2013 and is now the only Spanish NGO presence in this camp. FPSC has just also starting working in Azraq refugee camp.