Basma Association
| Founded | March 7, 2000 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Leila Ben Ali |
| Focus | " BASMA Association for the Promotion of Employment for the Disabled Persons" |
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| Website | basma-emploi.tn |
The BASMA Association for the Promotion of Employment of the Disabled is a Charitable association. It was established on March 7, 2000, by Mrs. Leila Ben Ali, the wife of the former president of the Republic of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The BASMA (meaning “smile” in Arabic) Association seeks to back up the State’s efforts in the integration of the disabled, particularly by contributing to enhancing their employment, offering them assistance in finding jobs in both the public and private sectors and also in starting their own projects. The association endeavors to disseminate the spirit of initiative and the sense self-reliance amongst the disabled and persons with specific needs, so as to repel the notion of dependency and to urge them to actively contribute to their own integration in the socio-economic circuit. BASMA contributes also to the training and employment of the disabled, and aids them market their products and participate in various trade fairs and events.
BASMA’s essential aim is to promote the employment of disabled persons either as wage-earners or as self-employed. In order to attain this goal, the association endeavors to prepare disabled individuals for professional life by providing or extending the training opportunities and by ensuring their educational integration at a very early pre-school age. Amongst the major aims of the association are:
BASMA’s action is not confined to the employment of the disabled. It seeks also to offer different types of services including health and leisure in order to help persons with specific needs to merge within the society and pull them out from the state and feeling of loneliness and marginalization. Thus, and as part of its relentless endeavor to assist the disabled to integrate into socio-economic circuit, the association has proceeded on several occasions to the distribution of various kinds of equipment to help this category launch their own projects in different domains and areas such as sewing, seaming, and broidery, silk painting, silver manufacturing, and gardening.
The BASMA Association has always endeavored to set up and uphold effective partnership relationships with several governmental and non-governmental structures operating in the field of the rehabilitation and employment of the disabled. It is within this frame that BASMA set up a network of relations with national and international bodies so as to bestow further efficiency upon its operations. This has culminated in the signature of partnership and cooperation agreements with the following bodies:
-The Tunisian Solidarity Bank (BTS)
-The National Agency for Employment and Independent Work (ANETI)
-The Tunisian Professional Training Agency (ATFP)
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