The Lebanese Center for Human Rights (CLDH) is a local non-profit, non-partisan Lebanese human rights organization in Beirut that was established by the Franco-Lebanese Movement SOLIDA (Support for Lebanese Detained Arbitrarily) in 2006. SOLIDA has been active since 1996 in the struggle against arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and the impunity of those perpetrating gross human violations.

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January 6, 2010

Daily Star - Tripoli Camp Helps Blind Children

BEIRUT: Blind students from all across Lebanon attended a camp at the Orthodox School in Tripoli over the weekend titled “Empowerment through integration: Together we build a society.” The workshop was organized by two students from the Wellesley College in Boston, who had won the Clinton Foundation Award for creating a program to integrate visually disabled persons in the academic and social fields.
The program also trains the visually disabled to become independent, to strengthen their self-confidence, and help raise social awareness.
Blind people in Lebanon are less likely to attend schools and universities than their counterparts. – The Daily Star

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