The director general of Al-Mabarrat Charitable Association Dr Mohammad Baqir Fadlallah met the special adviser to the president of the Italian region of Tuscany for cooperative activities and international relations Massimo Toschi, accompanied by the Italian ambassador to Lebanon Giuseppe Morabito, at the Al-Saha Heritage Village on the airport road, within the framework of learning about the needs of people with special needs in Lebanon, and especially the needs of those embraced by Al-Mabarrat through Al-Hadi Institution for Hearing and Visual Impairment and Language and Communication Disorders.
The meeting was attended by Allama Sayyed Jaafar Fadlallah, the director of the Al-Saha Heritage group Jamal Makkeh, the director of Bahman Hospital Ali Karim, the political and media adviser to Sayyed Ali Fadlallah, Hani Abdallah, and the general religious supervisor of Al-Mabarrat Sheikh Fouad Khreiss.
Toschi and Morabito listened to a full explanation from Dr Fadlallah about Al-Mabarrat's fields of work and the beneficiaries of its educational, care, health and social services, which target those deprived of care among children, students, parents, the elderly and the poor.
He thanked the Italian delegation for the support Italy has offered and offers to Lebanon in general and to Al-Mabarrat in particular, recalling the constructive cooperation between the association and the Italian embassy in Lebanon and the Italian cooperation organization RC in securing equipment for a number of the association's institutions that were destroyed as a result of the Israeli aggression against Lebanon in 2006, in addition to preparing and organizing training programmes for those working in the social and educational field.
Fadlallah stressed “that the Italian assistance indicates the depth of the partnership and the human bonds that join Lebanon and Italy, which are firmly rooted from of old and which come in a natural context for the sake of helping Lebanon and its humanitarian and charitable institutions to carry out their social tasks and their developmental projects that reach those in need, especially people with special needs”.
