Scientific Forum for People with Disabilities opens

His Highness Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Deputy President of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports and Honorary President of Bahrain Sports Federation for Disabilities deputised Jameel Humaidan, Minister of Labour and Social Development, to open the 19th Scientific Forum for People with Disabilities, at the Diplomat Radisson Blu Hotel, Residence and Spa.

Themed “Disabilities Sports: Challenge and Ambition”, the forum is organized under the patronage of His Highness by the Gulf Disability Society in co-operation with the National Institute for the Disabled.

The opening ceremony was attended by Shaikh Duaij bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, Honorary President of the Gulf Disability Society and President of National Institute for the Disabled, as well as a number of community figures and institutions, concerned local and Gulf associations and individuals, people with disabilities and their families, individuals working in the field of the education and rehabilitation of people with disabilities, community service activists, academics and specialists in the field of psychology and education of people with disabilities.

On the occasion, HH Shaikh Khalid stated: “The Kingdom of Bahrain is a role model in the field of supporting and caring for people with disabilities through the leading strides it took to provide decent living of this category and its efforts dedicated to their integration with the community as active role-players in the development of the homeland.”