Report on the African regional workshop for Eastern and Southern Africa on rehabilitation of the visually impaired, Harare, Zimbabwe, 10-14 March, 1986

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Title:	Report on the African regional workshop for Eastern and Southern Africa on rehabilitation of the visually impaired, Harare, Zimbabwe, 10-14 March, 1986
Year:	1986
Issue:	3
Pages:	29
Language:	English
Series:	The African Rehabilitation Institute [ARI], Series AWorkshop and seminar reports
City of publisher:	Harare
Publisher:	African Rehabilitation Institute
Geographic term:	Subsaharan Africa
Subject:	physically disabled
Abstract:	Account of the Regional Workshop on Rehabilitation of the Visually Impaired, held in Harare, Zimbabwe, in March 1986. The workshop had as its main objective, the presentation, deliberation and clarification of all issues relevant to the provision and development of comprehensive rehabilitation programmes and services for visually handicapped persons, which in future could be organized on unified and regional basis with common conceptual guidelines. The long-term goal is to develop qualitative rehabilitation services which will bring about equalization of employment opportunities and income-earning capacities and better standard of living for the visually handicapped. Participants came from Eastern and Southern African countries, two liberation movements (PAC and SWAPO) as well as the Christoffel Blinden Mission, the International Labour Organization, and the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind.