LAND INITIATIVES
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Link affected families with a medical center to receive needed care and advice
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Raise awareness about early genetic diagnosis in both families and future generation
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Regularly communicate with families and organize get together fun days
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Support social integration of affected children
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Empower children to live a normal life until a cure is found
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Share most updated multidisciplinary medical approaches to improve quality of life
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Share recent studies and findings on Neuro-Muscular diseases
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Provide medical equipments such as electrical wheelchairs, lifters, breathing/coughing machines
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Translate and distribute latest medical guidance booklets to affected families
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Media outreach with TV & radio stations and social media
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Lobbying with government, including Ministry of Social Affairs and Ministry of Health
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Linkages with regional health care centres in the South and North of the country to reach affected families in remote areas
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Organising yearly Telethons with the French community in Lebanon in support of the Association française contre les myopthies (AFM) which focuses on genetic research to find a cure.
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Highlight rare disease day and world Duchene awareness day
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Screening of documentaries and movies
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Personal contributions
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Fundraising events
Collaboration with local and international organisations
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Treat- Neuro-Muscular Disease (Treat-NMD)
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Parents Project Muscular Distrophy meetings (UPPMD)
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World Duchenne Organization (WDO)
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Eurordis and AFM (L’Association française contre les myopathies)
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Sesobel & Tamana
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