Chary Ovezov on the challenges facing the Blind and Deaf Society of Turkmenistan

Ashgabat, 1 June 2011.

Chary Berkeliyevich Ovezov, Chairman of the Blind and Deaf Society of Turkmenistan.

Our organization unites visually and hearing impaired people. The main task of our organization is to protect the rights and interests of visually and hearing impaired people and, to the extent possible, rehabilitate them as soon as possible so that these people could completely integrate into regular activities of our society.

Our main challenge today is to make fully functional the existing resource base to carry out social and vocational rehabilitation. The other challenge is to carry out rehabilitation of people with disabilities through other means such as healthcare, sports, culture and etc. And this should be done with the Government support.

The signing by the President of Turkmenistan of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol gives us hope that people with disabilities in Turkmenistan will enjoy equal access to education, labor, sports, culture and etc.

We would like to see the enforcement of Turkmenistan's legislation, the establishment of an efficient mechanism of implementation of laws. We would like the Government to be guided by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol as the basic documents for further actions in relation to disabled people. We would like to have government contracts for our training-production enterprises, and also the establishment of a social fund that we could use through different projects to conduct various rehabilitation activities on the basis of existing rehabilitation facilities.

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