What is AINO?
Life is fully lived with humanity and love, and we are the ones who make it possible. Believing in the spirit of giving and sharing, Ibrahim Nassir Omais Association welcomes everyone with additional needs to improve their essential role in society.
Legal Status
Ibrahim Nassir Omais Association (AINO) is a non-profit association registered in Lebanon under Registration No. 874, dated 5 May 2017, issued by the Ministry of the Interior and Municipalities. Its registered office is in Al-Zrariyeh, Sidon District, South Lebanon.
Our Vision
We seek to build a world where our kids and their families unleash their unlimited potential and explore endless opportunities through our holistic programs specially chosen for them to be able to face life independently.
Our Mission
The basis of the AINO mission is: love,
embrace difference, supporting and
challenge.
We seek to help people with special
needs by providing a complete
rehabilitation program to enjoy a decent
life and achieve their autonomy to
integrate into society and establish
their true role in it.
Our Goals
- Educating, supporting and backing up the families by guiding and instructing them to the most important methods that must be followed in dealing with persons with special needs.
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Motivating the persons with special
needs to various professional
qualification programs such as:
Mortar, wax and soap production, sewing, leather goods, sawmills, pottery, perfumes, mosaic etc… - Training them on rhythmic, kinesthetic and craftsmanship programs: arts, recycling, music, theater, sports, nursery and animal care...
- Empowering people with special needs to achieve self-independence through holistic and personalized approaches to their education, therapeutic interventions, and rehabilitation programs in various fields: living skills, physical activities, psychological well-being, artistic, and vocational skills.
- Promoting awareness about people with special needs and combating social harm by providing needed support, training, and education to their families and environment to help their children.
- Cooperating with local, regional and international authorities and agencies to exchange experiences and provide people with special needs to make them constructive members of their communities.
- Advocating positive change through integrating people with special needs within their communities based on their abilities, potentials and acquired skills to become productive members and get along with their day-to-day life.
- Encouraging voluntary and benevolent cooperation with people with special needs.