Social Protection
SANA Organization:
SANA is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering individuals with intellectual and or developmental disabilities in Jordan. Founded in 2010, SANA aims to create a supportive community that acknowledges and assists these individuals in leading fulfilling lives. Through various programs, SANA addresses the challenges faced by families, supports education, and facilitates employment opportunities for persons with intellectual and or developmental disabilities.
SANA works on serval programs, Parents Support Group Program (PSG) to support families and creating a supportive network to help parents advocate for their children. Scholarships Program to support education for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
In the 2024-2025 academic year, over 230 children are benefiting from this program across various schools and centers in Jordan.
The Work Program to facilitate employment opportunities for persons with intellectual and or developmental disabilities (PWIDs).
SANA provides personalized job training for PWIDs, helping them transition into the workforce with full employee benefits as per Jordanian labor law.
Success Stories: Over 200 young adults have been successfully employed across different sectors, contributing to their personal independence.
Habayebna Platform
Habayebna platform was established in 2017, aiming to provide specialized content to integrate people with intellectual disabilities into society. The platform contains hundreds of educational and awareness videos, as well as inspiring experiences to integrate persons with intellectual disabilities, in addition to scientific and cognitive meetings with experts and specialists in the fields of special education and inclusion, to enhance knowledge and experiences, and enrich the Arabic content in this field, by providing digital knowledge courses for parents In addition to scientific and knowledge meetings with experts and specialists in the fields of special education and inclusion, to enhance knowledge and expertise and provide an opportunity for platform visitors to learn about these experiences and enrich the Arabic content in this field, by providing digital knowledge courses for parents, the platform also worked to provide a consultation service for parents by communicating with experts and specialists through the platform.
Through the Higher Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities' support for the initiatives, the partnership between the Council and Habayebna platform has contributed to providing more than 1000 consultations to families of persons with intellectual disabilities through consultation calls in the fields of occupational and speech therapy and behavioral guidance.
Here is the link to the platform https://habaybna.net/
Muslim Young Women's Association
A non-profit organization to serve the community through the implementation of educational projects. The association focused most of its attention on providing educational services to youth, children and women. The Association devoted part of its attention to persons with disabilities by establishing a special education center that provides educational and rehabilitation services for persons with disabilities of different age groups. The Council, through its project to support initiatives, provided support to the Muslim Young Women's Association, where the Council contributed to providing educational and rehabilitation services in addition to other services related to vocational rehabilitation in the school section of the center, and the center obtained accreditation for providing services to persons with disabilities after applying the standards for such services.
Family Health Care Institute
Established in 1996, the Family Health Care Institute is a national and regional model for comprehensive health care that includes physical, psychological, social and rehabilitative care for Jordanians and refugees in Jordan. It is estimated that 120,441 people benefited from the Institute's services in the governorates and camps, while the number of services provided by the Institute in its various forms is estimated at more than 213,000 services.
The Higher Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Institute have signed a memorandum of understanding under which the Institute manages the identification card for persons with disabilities in coordination with and under the supervision of the Council, diagnoses various disabilities through multidisciplinary teams, sets up reproductive health centers for persons with disabilities, and provides various rehabilitation services for persons with disabilities who are referred to the Institute by the Council.
Hajja Rafiqa Endowment
The Hajja Rafiqa Endowment is a daytime educational and rehabilitative initiative that provides training and rehabilitation for persons with intellectual disabilities and their families. The Endowment offers a range of services including early intervention (Portage Programme), pre-academic and academic skills development, special education services, support services, occupational and physical therapy, as well as speech and language therapy.
In addition, the Endowment provides general health and nursing care, social services, vocational training in handicrafts and sewing, and training in essential life skills. It also implements a variety of capacity-building and empowerment programmes for professionals working across different specialisations. Each month, the Endowment supports the education, training, and rehabilitation of approximately 57 individuals with intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, and cerebral palsy, in addition to serving members of the local community, including women from various age groups.