Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services Yenimahalle Visually Impaired Rehabilitation, Its center prepares disabled individuals from all over Turkey to life.

In order to facilitate the harmony of individuals to life and to help them solve the psychological and social problems caused bydisability, trainees are brought to social life at Yenimahalle Visually Impaired Rehabilitation Center.

Ministry of Family Labor and Social Services, all expenses covered by the organization provides 2 semesters of education per year. The training, which runs from September and February, serves 30 visually impaired individuals who have exceeded the compulsory education age. A total of 60 trainees year have vocational, social, and educational improvement programs. Trainees are trained in independent life techniques in many areas that facilitate their daily lives such as ironing, laundry folding, kitchen skills, relief writing, power plant training.

This rehabilitation and training are also given to facilitate their adaptation to life.

While the trainings are processed in 2 modules as Basic Education and Vocational Training, trainees are given independent action, personal administration, relief writing, abacus, snetwork courses, power plant, computer and business workshops in vocational training within the scope of basic education.

The center, which provides 2 semesters of education in 7 areas, welcomes 60 students a year. Students over the age of 15 from 81 provinces can also remain as boarders. Expenses were paid by the General Directorate of Disability and Elderly Services of the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Services and3,073.376.63 TL in 2019 to Yenimahalle Visually Impaired Rehabilitation Center, which provides boarding and day-to-day services throughout the country.

Success Stories of Visually Impaired Rehabilitation Center Trainees

Okan ALTINKAYIK: With his trainings from the Visually Impaired Rehabilitation Center, he completed his primary-Secondary-High School education from open education. Samsun graduated from 19 May University, a division of history. While studying at the university, he was appointed as a servant to a school affiliated with the Ministry of National Education. He is waiting to move on to the teaching staff.

Ismail YİĞİTER: Without knowing how to speak Turkish, he came to the Rehabilitation Center for the Visually Impaired. He learned to speak, read, and write Turkish. 1st and 2nd. He completed his level training through the center and took care of his own business independently.

Olcay AŞÇI: Besides his technological talent, he developed himself very well with the trainings he has received here. He started a job at a GSM operator.

Lawyer Gizem AKSAÇ: While studying at law school, the accident lost the ability of the presenter to see. Thanks to the basic education he has received from the Visually Impaired Rehabilitation Center, he continues his school and business life without problems. He works as a lawyer in Yenimahalle Municipality.

Vedat GÜLDÜ: He was not literate when he came from the Visually Impaired Rehabilitation Center. He completed 1^st and 2^nd his level training and took care of his own business independently.

Visually Impaired Teen Prepares Multi Extra Program, Uses 600 Thousand People around the World

Ahmet SETTAR, a 22-year-old visually impaired who came to Turkey years ago and settled in Turkey, has prepared a special software program used by600,000 visually impaired individuals around the world based on the difficulties he experienced. Settar, which facilitates the lives of thousands of disabled citizens with its education in Turkey, amazes those who see the tenacity. Based on the difficulties he faced in his life, he was sepulsive anddeveloped a video software program that would facilitate the good toll of the visuallyimpaired. The program, made by an Iraqi teenager, has now made the lives of 600,000 visually impaired people around the world easier