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/Disability Association of Tavana/
In 1989 upon implementation of the UN resolution 598 and subsiding of Iran-Iraq war blazes, the inflamed and crisis-stricken atmosphere of Iran witnessed a large number of the people suffering from disabilities as a result of war injuries. The Iranian legislators and authorities found meeting the financial and spiritual needs of this group one of their main priorities and relatively comprehensive rules were passed and implemented to support this group of people.
No attention has ever been paid to the basic needs and social and international rights of the ordinary disabled people in our country before the presence of the disabled people suffering from war injures in Iran both before the Islamic revolution in 1979 and after that. There was negligence in this regard despite the fact that according to non-official statistics, over 13% of Iran’s population are the disabled people whose only governmental supporter is the Welfare Organization. (This organization was designed and established to undertake numerous responsibilities with regard to taking care of the needy strata in the society including ones suffering from social disorders, women and children who have no breadwinners, drug addicts, prostitutes, the elderly people, the disabled, etc. and it is not considered to be a specific organization responsible for the disabled.)
From 1990 to 2000, the founder of this Centre, identifying, attracting and using the elite disabled people, formed a strong and integrated team and established an internal interest-free fund. This fund collected the deposits of its members and started to invest and implement projects that had short-term and long-term revenues so that the Association would not require any donation or contribution by the people. .
Since the early years of its activity, Tavana Association strongly started providing service to the disabled by the establishment of Housing Cooperative Co. of the Disabled (It has already managed to construct 148 apartments.), establishment of Goods Cooperative Company of the Disabled, establishment of the first public library for the disabled, launching of encouragement festivals of exemplary students, preparation for the marriage of 130 disabled couples, launching the sport facilities of the disabled women, production of short films, administration of targeted camps, administration of specialist seminars with the topic of equipping the urban system with travel and transportation facilities for the disabled, launching production, assembly and packing workshops by creating over 80 jobs for the disabled.
* our objectives*
- To amend the cultures and change the society’s view regarding disability, Research shows that unfortunately in the developing countries, the people look at the disabled with mercy and sympathy. Thus culture building and change of the society’s view regarding disabilities (including family, training centres and people) and inspiring the disabled by correct beliefs are the most important objectives of this Centre.
- To collect and reflect the rules and regulations and to defend the social rights of the disabled, Unfortunately the information and cultural poverty of the disabled in the third world countries has led to their isolation and deprivation and resulted in elimination of these individuals from the society. Even most of the countries do not have a precise and correct statistics of the population of their disabled co-citizens and the disabled do not usually impose any pressure on them. That is why the governments are not sufficiently familiar with the relevant rules and regulations and the rights of the disabled are not observed in these countries. Therefore collection, classification and dissemination of local and international rules and regulations regarding the disabled and making the disabled aware of their rights to pursue the governments’ obligations before them as well as defending their rights expertly and lawfully is one of the most important objectives of Tavana Association.