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South Caucasus Pipeline Company starts new community project

16 December 2016 [18:10] - TODAY.AZ

By Azernews

By Nigar Abbasova

The South Caucasus Pipeline Company announced the launch of a new Building Early Intervention Services In Communities Project to build early intervention services in ten regions along the pipeline route - Hajigabul, Kurdamir, Agdash, Ujar, Yevlakh,  Samukh, Goranboy, Shamkir, Tovuz, Agstafa, BP Azerbaijan reported.

The initiative is part of the social investment programme of the South Caucasus Pipeline Expansion (SCPX) project. The aim of the project is to raise both community and health sector awareness of the importance of early intervention in the process of children’s development.

The project is designed to provide services to identify children’s disabilities and developmental delays as early as possible and intervene in an effort to correct them.

The work scope includes establishment of early intervention centres in the ten districts along the pipeline, training of three early intervention specialists for each district centre, empowering parents to be active participants in their children’s development and building public awareness of the importance of early intervention.

“We believe the theme of this project is in the focus of attention of a number of parties including the Ministry of Health, local Executive Committees, local health care institutions and schools, parentsand the entire community”, said Bakhtiyar Aslanbayli, BP’s Vice President for Communications, External Affairs and Strategy. “Therefore we expect it to bring all these interested parties together around one common goal which is to bring up healthy, physically and mentally capable citizens by intervening in child development as early as possible.  Early intervention is an internationally practiced system of services. We hope the project will help to promote this practice making the communities aware of how effectively early intervention can correct children’s disabilities and change their lives”

The duration of the project is one year with a value of around 331,000 AZN.

The project will be implemented by UAFA (The United Aid for Azerbaijan) - a local non-governmental organization with 18 years of experience in training child development specialists to provide services for children with disabilities and developmental delays. 

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