Support Organizations in the Middle East
Please note: This is not an exhaustive list, and will be added to over time. Also, Evenbreak has not vetted these organizations, so this is not an endorsement; just a list of organizations we are aware of. If you have any feedback about these organizations, or know of any that we have missed, please let us know at info@evenbreak.com
Support Organizations in Cyprus
Committee for the Protection of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
The Committee for the Protection of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities is a ten-member council and employs staff to support persons with intellectual disabilities to support their rights in accordance with the United Nations Convention for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, ratified by the Law 8(III) 2011.
http://www.cpmental.com.cy/en/home
Cyprus Confederation of Disabled Organizations (CYSOA)
We welcome you to the website of the Cyprus Confederation of Disabled Organizations (CYSOA). Our Confederation exists and operates successfully since 1984 when it was founded in Cyprus. KYSOA today officially holds the position of Social Partner in the issues that directly or indirectly concern people with disabilities and fights for the promotion of measures that contribute to their full participation in the social, economic, political and cultural life of the country.
Cypriot Rheumatoid Association
The Rheumatoid Association of Cyprus is celebrating forty (40) successful years of operation with a vision of the best quality of life for Rheumatoid Patients. In the light of an evolutionary path, which advocates the vision, values and goals that represent SyReK, we have claimed and won rights in favour of patients with Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal diseases, for their better access to higher health services, social integration and support in all aspects of Rheumatoid patients’ lives.
Myopaths Association of Cyprus (MDA Cyprus)
The Myopaths Association of Cyprus (MDA Cyprus) was founded in 1986 and its members are children and adults, from all over Cyprus. The aims of the Association of Myopathies are to secure and provide medical care, mobility assistance and support to its members, to promote measures for more active participation of the state and society in all areas related to Myopathies and to organize lectures
Pancypriot Multiple Sclerosis Association
The Pancypriot Multiple Sclerosis Association was founded on March 6, 1986, with Thea Kyprianou as a pioneer in this difficult struggle. The main purpose of the Association is to offer help to people with Multiple Sclerosis and their families.
Support Organizations in Dubai
Noor Dubai Foundation
Noor Dubai Foundation is a UAE based charity focused on the prevention of blindness and visual impairment globally. Since its launch in 2008, millions of individuals from all over Africa and Asia have benefited from the Foundation’s free treatment and preventive programmes, which includes provision of surgeries, eyeglasses, and medication. In addition to providing treatment, preventive, and educational programmes, the Foundation aims to empower communities by overcoming the burden and devastating impact of blindness on everyday lives.
UAE Deaf Association
We aspire to distinguished and effective participation in bringing about a qualitative change in the development of Emirati society.
Support Organizations in Turkey
Turkish Disabled Association
The TURKISH DISABLED ASSOCIATION was founded in 1958 by Nafi Tuna, Cenani Çalışan and a few friends who spent their days at the Ali Paşa Cafe in the neighborhood opposite the Cerrahpaşa Hospital, and it continued for two years under the name of the Paralyzed Association. The one-story building between the Istanbul Faculty of Medicine and the Çapa Teachers’ School was allocated to the association by the then Istanbul Governor, Vefa Poyraz, and after the association moved there, the instructors of the Istanbul Faculty of Medicine Orthopaedics Clinic also got involved and made the association more comprehensive and more comprehensive. The general assembly in 1960 changed the name of the association to the TURKISH DISABLED ASSOCIATION and appealed to a wider audience. In the meantime, the Istanbul society of the time, retired pashas, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine Professors and Doctors made contributions, middle school and high school students wore piggy banks around their necks and badges were put on the collars of citizens on the ferry docks in the streets, and campaigns were organized to introduce the association and to generate income for the association.
Turkish Disabled Sports Aid and Education Foundation
As the Turkish Disabled Sports Aid and Education Foundation, we closely follow the existing problems of our disabled individuals in many areas, we try to find solutions to their problems and make their voices heard. Our sensitive, sharing, benevolent and helpful Turkish people have significant support in our work. Tesyev continues to meet the needs of our disabled citizens, whose numbers are increasing every day, in the fields of education, health and sports, so that they can share life as self-confident individuals.
Turkish Muscle Diseases Association
Turkish Muscle Diseases Association Is the first non-governmental organization that has been active in this field since 1978, where disabled individuals with muscular diseases and their relatives can access all fundamental human rights protected by international agreements and that continues its work to raise awareness in the field of disability. Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Coşkun Özdemir and supporting its establishment, there are Dr. Bahattin Yardımcı, Dr. Yıldırım Aktuna, Fahri Özden, Nilgün Kuran, Dr. Halil A. İdrisoğlu, Prof. Dr. Hüsrev Hatemi, Hasan Bilecikli, Havva Arslan and Prof. Dr. Hıfzı Özcan.
