אופק לילדינו ארגון ארצי של הורים לילדים לקויי ראייה ועיוורים "OFEK LIYLADENU” Israel National Association of Parents of Visually Impaired Children

"Ofek Liyladenu" - Our Children's Horizon, is a newly established (1996) non profit association of parents of visually impaired and blind children in Israel. There are approximately 2000 visually impaired and blind children, and more than 80% are integrated in the mainstream educational system.

However, in order to turn them into competent young adults, a lot needs to be done by the parents.

The main goals of our association is to support parents of visually impaired and blind children by the following actions:

1. To distribute a newsletter with updated relevant information (from national and international sources) to help them bring up and educate their children.

2. To organize guided support groups in the different regional centers, to discuss common issues in raising up blind and visually impaired children.

3. To initiate seminars , regional and annual conferences dealing with issues related to the special skills visually impaired children need to be trained in.

4. To set up afternoon and summer activities for the children who are integrated in regular schools, in order to strengthen them in the fields that cannot be dealt with the needed attention during the school hours.

5. To be an influential body, which represents our children's special needs among the various ministries in charge of our children.

6. To implement joint projects with the Special Services for Blind Pupils in the Education Ministry, in order to improve the education, rehabilitation and extra curricular activities of our children.

7. To promote better understanding of our visually impaired children and tolerance within the general public.

8. To distribute scholarships for the children's special needs (special devices and computers) and to reward children or persons in the community for outstanding dedication to our children.

The board of directors is elected by the parents members of the association, and includes representatives of the different regions, children age groups, various degrees of visual impairment (visually impaired, blind, multi-handicapped) and ethnic groups (jews, arabs, bedouins). All the members are parents who work voluntarily.

The activities of our association are not sponsored by any governmental entity. All funds are raised as membership fees or by individuals who care for the cause.

Our address is:
"OFEK LIYLADENU"
8 Degel Reuven St., P. O. Box 925, Jerusalem 91008, Israel
Tel: +972 (2) 6599553 Fax: +972 (2) 6522614
email: ofek@ofek-liyladenu.org.il
http://www.ofek-liyladenu.org.il

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