NR 08 Abnaouna (our children)

The center has the capacity to welcome 40 children with down syndrome but only half of them are attending classes because of a lack of transport.
The daily activities are:
• Take care of down syndrome children and accompany them in their daily tasks
• Organize leisure activities
• Support the teachers by helping to teach the kids social manners: how to sit down, how to eat, etc.
• Provide them scholar support in a school where all kinds of childrens attend classes and encourage their integration with the other kids.
• Organize workshops: Painting – Sport – Cooking – Literacy – Music – Outdoors excursions, etc.
• Develop self-appreciation in the heart of the children through a skill-based approach.
Just in front of the center, there is a medical center where the children get follow-up for psychological issues, physiotherapy, speech therapy...
The staff of this association is mostly composed of parents who were interested in giving children in this situation a better life through social integration.

The objective of this project is to work for the integration of children with down syndrome and help them master basic useful skills, teach them social manners and encourage their social integration (through scholar support and cultural activities) to ensure them a life as ordinary as possible.