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Jordan and US nonprofit work together to develop programs for people with disabilities
September 1st, 2010
Jordan’s Prince Raad bin Zaid signed a contract on Tuesday with a New York-based not-for-profit group, YAI Network, to develop programs for Jordanians with mental and other developmental disabilities.
The initial goal is to create group residences, day care facilities and job training programs at centres in the Jordanian capital Amman and the nation’s third-largest city, Kerak. Services will be aimed at people with disabilities as well as their families.
Prince Raad, who visited YAI Network facilities in the U.S. several years ago, said the programs were “something beautiful, something that has already succeeded” in improving the lives of disabled people.
“We are starting from ground zero, and we have to work our way up,” Prince Raad said, promising to encourage adoption of YAI Network strategies.