Providing hearing and seeing aids paired with inclusive education in refugee camps

The PCCDS, a local NGO based in the city of Hebron, runs a programme specialized in improving the educational outcomes of students with hearing and visual disabilities in schools located in 19 refugee camps run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). From 2021 to 2023 doctors examined some 1,900 male and female students, and subsequently provided hearing aids to 211 students and glasses to 743 students. Jointly with inclusive education curricula, the completion rates among those students increased from 27 to 59 per cent.

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