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We build a better world

In 1998, El-Razi was founded by a selection of Arab specialists in the fields of medicine and alternative medicine – exclusively for children. The founders’ goal was to face and change societal misunderstandings and misconceptions about disabled children. In addition, El-Razi provides professional treatments for the disabled.

El-Razi was the first center of its kind to group a professional staff from different disciplines. It has always sought to diagnose disabled children and young adults, and develop innovative remedies that suit the Arab community in full coordination and cooperation with all relative bodies, especially with government and health departments, local authorities and civil society organizations.

Today, El-Razi works in 130 local authorities all over the country in full cooperation with the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services; and with the Ministry of Health. The center has various special projects, including:

Diagnosis centers for people with developmental cognitive disability, rehabilitation daycares for children with developmental disabilities, as well as treatment units. Throughout the years, the center has provided nearly 50 thousand treatments in the treatment units, various services for nearly 1500 children in daycares, and has supervised over 20 thousand diagnoses in the diagnosis centers, in addition to providing thousands of hours of guidance for staffs and people.

Moreover, El-Razi operates a center for the diagnosis and treatment of learning disability. It has also developed a model for diagnosing adult native speakers of Arabic.

The center is considered to be the mecca of mental diagnosis and treatments of Arab children. It works with social groups who are at risk and suffering from distress, especially young boys and girls, by seeking to establish therapeutic frameworks and preparing precautionary programs in the Arab community.

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This available-to-all website is the fruit of our deep belief in the necessity of communication with the broad public in general and with the relevant public in particular. It is an additional tool to deepen public awareness and to emphasize the necessity for making an awareness change in the way we deal with “the other”. This is significant especially for those who live among us and need our professional and humane support, so they may adapt to the daily societal life in its broad sense. 

This is what EL-Razi has already put in mind 20 years ago when it was founded.

First and foremost, El-Razi is a mission!
It is a way for building a better world.

A world that is safe and supportive, in which every person could use their latent potentialities.

A world in which every person could feel their personal disability and limitations with confidence and safety.

For every person has a disability,
Every person, too, has inner light and distinctive capabilities.

Every person has a life course… and a dream That they could reach self-realization and fulfill their dreams if they believe in themselves, and grow to be aware of their strengths; if they are in a safe and supportive world, or at least in a world that does not obstruct their natural thrust towards a better future.

The only thing needed is to make a decision, to plan and work steadily… with patience… Therefore, we are here…

We are here to guide, support and set an example.

In the way towards building this better world, there are some challenges. This is only natural. Sometimes, one feels despair when facing unexpected difficulties. This is normal and legitimate.

El-Razi works in more than 115 local authorities, municipalities and welfare departments all over a wide geographical area, from north to south. This creates even more challenges.

It requires a great deal of extra work for raising awareness and professional collaboration in certain areas with distinctive cultural and social features.

We are partners in all of this. In fact, often times, we lead the change.

El-Razi stands on the front as one of you.

El-Razi is a staff of employees, professionals and directors who work together filled with a sense of belonging; guided by honesty, integrity and transparency.

We are that staff; a staff so remarkable, 80% of its members are women: nurses, therapists, directors, and leaders with a high level of trust, professionalism, belonging and responsibility.

We are the management of this institution, which could well be the only active institution that is not seen as a “family business”.

13% of the staff are employees who so closely know what disability is. In fact, they deal with it on a daily basis, not only as employees and therapists, but also as mothers and fathers, as sisters and brothers, as daughters and sons in their homes.

El-Razi is this cultural mix that comes to us from nearly 45 towns and cities from north to south: from Arrabah, Tel Aviv, Rahat, Rishon Lezion, Hod Hasharon, Sakhnin, Haifa, Nazareth, Yavneh, Gadot, Sheikh Dannoun and other places.

This staff regenerates its energy whenever it gives more. This staff takes its energy from children: an energy that keeps growing as the job is nearly finished.

For working in El-Razi fills us with energy all the time.

During our work, we only see similes spreading around while being fully aware that we live in an imperfect world and that there must be some mistakes.

We have always welcomed criticism from our partners. Criticism makes us learn, for learning from our mistakes is a strength.

We have always respected every constructive note. We contain every father’s scream, every mother’s complaint, and say “thank you”… “Thank you for allowing us to be the address for your expression and for your trust that we will embrace you with all the love that we have for you.

And indeed, every single time was a success.
Even after the problem has reached its limits, and no therapist, no employee could stand in its face… even when they cried in silence…

We know how to support our heroes too.

Leading the change has its own price.

What counts is facing the difficulties and witnessing of the outcome.

El-Razi is about the smiles that feed us; it is about every warm expression that we receive from a father; it is every tear of happiness from the eyes of a mother when she witnesses her child making his first steps…

It is a hero who remains on stand-by; a hero who never sleeps, who is always awake… who has hope; a hero who is never tired; a hero who is always ready to give a touch of love and plant a warm kiss on the forehead.

It is you, parents…

With you, we will always be what we wish to be.

Never forget: first, we must wish… to dream, so we may become what we wish to be.

 

Dr. Ali Badarneh
El-Razi, General Manager

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