Open-air sports and entertainment area is commissioned for disabled people and children with impaired health condition

A sports and entertainment area called “DOST Corner” was inaugurated for disabled people and children with impaired health condition in a sports and entertainment park complex in Khatai district of Baku, following the Heydar Aliyev Foundation’s initiative and enjoying the support of the Ministry of Social Protection of Population.

With a view to ensuring that physically disabled people can engage in various types of sport and spend their free time efficiently, sports facilities, merry-go-rounds and additional facilities were installed to suit their possibilities. Those in a wheel chair too will be able to engage in sports, and children with limited health condition can avail themselves of entertainment facilities.

Head of the Social Services Agency under the Ministry of Social Protection of Population Vugar Behbudov and representative of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Fidan Yusibova attended the project’s presentation.

Special care shown by President Ilham Aliyev towards vulnerable groups of population, including disabled people, was talked about at the presentation ceremony. It was noted that actions of social nature, as well as those aiming at disabled persons and children with impaired health condition have their special place among the projects implemented following the initiative of First Vice-president of Azerbaijan, President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Mehriban Aliyeva.

It was mentioned that to date, the Heydar Aliyev Foundation has implemented a series of projects aiming to give every support to physically disabled people, and their rehabilitation and integration into the society. Formation of a healthy lifestyle among these people, encouraging them to show more interest in sports, and creation of appropriate conditions for this purpose are also paid special attention. Creation of “DOST Corner” in a sports and entertainment park complex in Khatai district serves the same purpose.

The project “Our Front Yard” has been implemented following the initiative and with the support of Leyla Aliyeva, the vice-president of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, founder and head of IDEA Public Association. In these projects too, special attention is paid to formation of a healthy lifestyle, creation of conditions to ensure easy movement of disabled people and those with restricted health condition, and make sure that they spend their free time efficiently.

It was noted that the Social Projects Agency too has been supporting projects aiming at upgrading the possibilities for social rehabilitation of physically disabled people, and integration thereof into the society.