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Residential home for mentally disabled women
In Tamra, there are three public institutions accommodating women with slight mental disabilities. Two of these residential homes only provide room for 17 women who are able to live almost completely on their own, only supervised by one social worker. Those women have regular jobs, mostly in public institutions. With their earnings, they are able to realize annual excursions abroad; during the last two years they went to Turkey (Antalya) and Jordan.
The third residential home accommodates 16 women in 9 rooms. These women need more support and day care, even though the concept of mutual support between women of different degrees of disabilities is successfully carried out. It is the intention that women with different degrees of ability live together, support each other and take different responsibilities in the daily common duties.
Some of the women are Christian, others are Muslim, some go to Church and others to the mosque, but basically they live together without any interference based on different religious backgrounds.
One will notice, that the disabled are amazingly well integrated in the community of the town of Tamra. To respect the disabled people, the institutions for them are just named "Tamra Hostel" and the buildings are part of a regular residential neighbourhood. The women fully participate in the town’s social life and many local volunteers regularly support the centres.
Many of the women go swimming on a regular basis and take part in competitions for disabled people. The swimming team of Tamra is the most successful team of disabled swimmers in the whole of Israel. Interns and volunteers can take part in day care (preferably with experience in nutrition and medicine use), occupational therapy, psychology (there is a psychologist coming weekly to the houses) and social work.
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Location: Tamra, Israel
Duration: Minimum 1 month
Special qualifications
needed: Yes
Costs: none, the trouble-free package is optional
Accommodation: Not included
Meals: Not included
Included: Placement in the project; if you opt for the
trouble-free package the whole range of services which is part of the
trouble-free package is included
Not included: Travel to Israel, health insurance
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*You can also book this activity as a 1-3 weeks
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