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Tunisia
Union Nationale des Aveugles de Tunisie (UNAT)
(National Union of the Blind of Tunisia)
21 Boulevard Bab Benat, Tunis 1006, Tunisia.
Contact person: Dr. I. E. Chaker
Tel: +216 71 565 630
Fax: +216 71 566 749
Email: chaker.unat@planet.tn
Activities: The National Union of Blind People of Tunisia (UNAT) was created in the 1960’s. Its action in favor of integration is highly diversified. It runs several sheltered workshops; with its Braille and spoken libraries it helps secondary school pupils and students; it prints school textbooks for the 3 specialist primary and secondary schools run by the State, runs a school for (blind) physiotherapists and in one of its centers, proposes a training for telephone switchboard operators. It has set up an adaptive I.T. training department and created a computer club that has a lot of members.
Last updated: 19/04/2010