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Wednesday 28 November 2007

Info Post
I've been posting images of art about disability that I've found on Flickr lately. But there's a program in Uzbekistan that uses art to help integrate disabled children with their nondisabled peers. From a Unicef news story:
Renata Karimova among over hundred of children does not suffer the fate of many other peers. Having come to the "SANVIKT" art rehabilitation Center, the children get opportunities for developing their creative abilities and communicating with healthy peers. "It is impossible to solve a problem of disabled children integration into everyday life without joint education and communication"- says Gulsara Rajapova, the Center Director. "It is a valuable opportunity for healthy children to learn to be tolerant, surmount deep-rooted prejudices and to look widely on life", -she added.

For many children staying with the Center is the opportunity for developing their creative abilities, increasing their capacities, acquiring necessary life skills and knowledge for the future realization of their potential.
And despite some obvious language translation problems, here's another informative article on the program.

The program's site, Sanvikt, is not in English. (Russian, maybe?) And the images of the art and people in the program are lovely, but not still images, so I do not know how to put an example here or even describe for the visually impaired, except to say there are dozens of images showing rooms filled from wall to ceiling with art, images of children working on art, and a big mural being painted by many. Anyone with suggestions of how to capture an image or two to put here, please enlighten me.

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