Important benefits regarding the multidisciplinary attention and favoring social reinsertion of the handicapped are among the more than 100 programs of the Revolution implemented in Cuba..

Contributing to that objective are the improvement of primary health assistance, social security and the use of audiovisual aids to educate and rehabilitate, including the development of work skills for those intellectually challenged.

Result of that national priority and in coordination with the Basque government and the NGO Doctors of the World, the project to strengthen assistance to people with intellectual disabilities in the Santiago Province is beginning to demonstrate its advances.

Psychologist Maribel Sanchez, expert of the Amarica Lavadi Psycho-pedagogical Medical Center, explained they are working on the remodeling of the institution in the Antonio Maceo residential area in that eastern province.

The center caters to children, youth and adults, 120 of whom live in the center and another 40 attend the institution to receive the specialized assistance and then return home.

Similarly, they initiate activities to raise the community s awareness toward that sector of the population and to provide a major support in their social reinsertion in schools, work centers and social-cultural places.

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