THE ROLE NGOS IN EMPOWERING PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS TO INTEGRATE SOCIALLY AND ENVIRONMENTALLY | ||
| Journal of Environmental Science | ||
| Article 2, Volume 49, Issue 2, February 2020, Pages 141-185 PDF (580.75 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jes.2020.158109 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Muhammad A. Sawan* 1; Mustafa I. Awad2; Abdel Nabi A. Khater3 | ||
| 1Post-graduate at Institute of Environmental Studies and Research, Ain-Shams University | ||
| 2Institute of Environmental Studies and Research, Ain-Shams University | ||
| 3Institute of Social Work at Cairo | ||
| Abstract | ||
| In his study of "Social and Environmental Empowerment for People with Special Needs", the researchers reached several results, including: The low status of people with special needs in the Egyptian society, and their suffering from many social and psychological problems where it was noted that the disabled did not obtain many rights and services compared to their regular peers. Double the examples of the existence of sufficient job opportunities, even within the framework of the 5% of the job opportunities, according to what is stated in the law. In the event that they work in their jobs or jobs. It increases the suffering of people with special needs. The researchers presented a group of people with special needs, including: Supporting the activities and societies of civil society in the field of care and employment for people with special needs. Professional; to provide people with special needs. Suffering from the difficulty of social life in the first place. The study used a sample of (90( males and females who benefits from the organisation and its services to achieve social and environmental integration. The idea of the research is based, according to the introduction to the study, on the process of integrating and activating the role of people with special needs within their local community. The researchers asked about the roles that society in all its systems and institutions can play to provide people with special needs with knowledge, attitudes, values and skills that enable them to make such participation and accept society for them. The research idea was based on the fact that human development is the development of action on the one hand, and the development of interaction on the other hand; that is, human development must include the development of human and social capital at the same time. The study aimed to integrate people with special needs within society, and to change the prevailing culture of disability, by identifying the roles that members of society and its institutions can contribute to achieving social normalization with this group and their acceptance, with the aim of reaching policies and mechanisms that work to integrate them in all development issues. The Study Problem: The researchers intended the concept of social empowerment as: "to provide people with special needs with the various knowledge, directions, values and skills that qualify them for active positive participation in various activities and events of human life to the maximum extent that qualifies them for their capabilities and capabilities, in addition to changing the culture of society towards the disabled and disability from a culture of marginalization to Empowerment culture. "The concept of people with special needs was expanded to include many social groups other than those with special needs (physical or mental). There is a disability (mental - political - legal - economic), indicating that people with special needs are disabled for reasons, some of them are genetic, and some are environmental due to a car accident - injury Work - poor service before pregnancy and during childbirth - also includes the culturally and politically disabled, and the gifted, because they have a special need in dealing. He defined disability as: "the loss, marginalization or limited participation in the activities, activities and experiences of social life at a similar level for ordinary people, as a result of obstacles, and social and environmental barriers." The researchers posed several main and sub-questions in its study, the most important of which are: the roles that society in all its systems and institutions can play to provide people with special needs knowledge, directions, values and skills that enable them to integrate into the activities of social life, along with several sub-questions about the nature of awareness of community members For people with special needs, and the perception of community members to deal with people with special needs, the possibility of developing a positive view of the role of people with special needs, forms of social care provided for people with special needs, and ways to enable and integrate people with special needs into society and take advantage of them. | ||
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