New centre for disabled children in Oman

Muscat: Sheikh Mohammed bin Sa’ayid Al Kalbani, Minister of Social Development yesterday issued a ministerial decision establishing Al Wafa Centre for Rehabilitation of Disabled Children in Maqniyat in the Wilayat of Ibri.
The centre was established as the town of Maqniyat is 80 kilometres far from Al Wafa Centre for Rehabilitation of Disabled Children in the Wilayat of Ibri.
The Centre is specialised in providing social and psychological rehabilitation services, rehabilitation programmes to improve the mobility, functional abilities, speech abilities from an early age, in addition to providing programs for the development of academic, knowledge, cognitive, and life skills, as well as preparing the person with disabilities to join educational, training and rehabilitation institutions according to his abilities and skills.
The Centre also provides vocational training programmes for those whose abilities allow that, whether within the Centre or in cooperation with governmental, private or civil society institutions.