(MENAFN- The Peninsula) The Peninsula
DOHA: As part of marking World Social Responsibility Day under slogan 'Achieving Zero Hunger, Best Buddies Qatar participated in the discussion entitled 'Achieving Food Security and Access for People with Disabilities in Qatar Social and Cultural Center for Blind.
Best Buddies Qatar official, Samah Al Khreasha raised four main subjects: disability, poverty, hunger and food insecurity; the challenges of achieving food security for persons with disabilities; sustainable development objectives and the rights of persons with disabilities; and solutions to eradicate the causes of poverty and hunger for persons with disabilities and their families.
The debate among Best Buddies Qatar experts and social responsibility and disability support specialists, concluded several important recommendations including the inclusion of disabilities in food and nutrition and food security programs, ensuring that persons with disabilities benefit equally from mainstream food programs and food security programs, as well as guaranteeing that international cooperation programs on food imports to developing countries do not contribute to food insecurity through the delivering of lower quality food.
The recommendations also emphasized raising awareness on the nutrition and disability among communities, nutrition institutions, disability institutions and governments at all levels.
The necessity of knowledge and understanding about the situation of children and parents with disabilities through data exchange and researches, reassures access to awareness campaigns on nutrition to persons with disabilities and their families.
The references emphasized that nutrition and disability are closely related to each other as priorities for global development; to eliminate malnutrition and to ensure the safety and health of children with disabilities through stopping poverty, ensuring justice and guaranteeing human rights.
Laalei Abu Alfain, Executive Director of Best Buddies Qatar, commented: 'Best Buddies Qatar, being a governmental non-profitable organisation which aims to enhance life of persons with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities through social integration, is eager to have this opportunity to raise, discuss and spread awareness of today's problematics of Hunger and Food Security and Accessibility for people with disabilities and their families.
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