QSCCB welcomes parents and guardians of blind, and invite them to visit the Center and benefit from its services to support them and serve their blind children. These services include:
1. Provide social and psychological support for the parents of blind and their families, reduce their suffering to help them provide the best living, intellectual and scientific levels for their children and help their children to manifest their talents and capabilities. In addition, hold meetings to exchange social and psychological experiences and manage the efforts to solve the problems they encounter in raising up their blind children.
2. Develop, monitor and follow up the services provided for the blind and their parents.
3. Introduce the blind basic rights and ways to claim them to the blind and their families, discuss the issues of discrimination against their rights and the best ways to promote these rights, assure that they enjoy the same rights of all the other society members, stop exposing them to mistreatment, violence and discrimination against their rights, and make sure that their blind children receive their rights.
4. Protect their blind children from all forms of exploitation and ensure their social rights. They must also ensure that their children are not subject to problems like: social exclusion, ill-equipped environment, violence, abandonment, sending blind children away to care institutions, deprive them from their right of education, feel ashamed from them and their disabilities, not registering them at birth, disrespect their high capabilities, …etc, and work to achieve their full integration in the society.
5. Raise the society awareness, cooperate with all the governmental and international institutions and early intervention to reduce the rate of blindness or visual impairment cases, distribute the health and educating researches and studies to raise the society awareness whether in schools, associations, clubs, …etc.
6. Hold lectures, seminars, conferences and invite parents to attend and participate, prompt the Media to highlight the real image of the blind as capable and productive people not as helpless people in need for assistance in all their life matters. Their opinions and views must be heard and they must be included in making the decisions and their role must be highlighted in the Media.
7. Establish a specialized library for the blind and invite parents to benefit from its resources, and participate in its development.
8. Oblige the governmental and private sectors to prepare and modify the environment, all the buildings, public facilities, and current services as to provide the best environment for them to move and serve themselves independently in all the States' facilities and institutions.
It's worth mentioning that Qatar Society for the Parents of Disabled People has been established by a Ministerial Decision. The second article of its Constitution summarizes the Society's aims and goals such as provide social and psychological support for the parents of blind and their families, claim the blind basic rights and defend these rights, introduce these rights to the parents and all the society, follow up on the services provided for the disabled people and work to improve and promote these services especially in the field of health and education, rehabilitate disabled people and integrate them in the society through setting up and executing suitable plans and programs. The society also seeks to protect people with disabilities from apparent and concealed exploitation, and raise the awareness in the society to reduce the cases of blindness and visual impairment and early intervention.
Qatar Society for the Parents of Disabled People is currently working temporary at Qatar Center for Speech and Hearing.
There are many similar Gulf and Arab Societies such as:
1. The handicapped Guardian Association/ UAE
2. The handicapped Guardians association/ UAE
