IRAP aims to support deaf and hard of hearing children and to help them improve their communication skills in the areas of voice, speech, language, hearing, cognition of their socialization and their academic and educational learning. It also welcomes children with learning difficulties.
A tradition: Work in the spotlight. Work for life, with and for the community.
An initiative, as early as 1960, of enthusiastic volunteers: To participate, by the gift of time and effort to the financing of the fledgling work. Assist and support people with disabilities to carry out work and sales.
It is also a service in the nascent community: the workshops are conceived as places of reception, places of formation as well as places of mutual aid material.
In 1968, the workshops moved to Ain-Aar in the Metn and specialized in handicrafts and handicrafts.
With the outbreak of armed conflict in 1975, the workshops are diversifying and trying to meet the most pressing needs of IRAP's most direct human environment: social cases ... poor people ... families without resources ... communities in distress ... in 1978 the food workshops: Pastry and Lebanese specialties are on the surface.
The workshops continue to be specially designed for people with special needs who can not fit into regular or ordinary professional structures. These are protected workplaces. They started and grew up to answer work calls and support the budget of IRAP.
The sale of the products provides support for the community and the budget for the care of the deaf children and adolescents of the institute.