IRAP established the Handcraft Sheltered Workshop for Deaf and Hard of Hearing in 1960. The purpose was to create in-house jobs for the disabled helping them find a career where they can fulfill themselves, be productive and become active members in the society. IRAP Scheltered handcraft in Ain Aar produces wonderful canvas textures including crochet, towels, fabric napkins, straw baskets, carpets, home decoration, Christmas decoration, Easter Crafts and more. Sweetest production meets daily orders for hotels, home decorations, villas, restaurants and exhibitions.
Under the direction of IRAP administration, the Handcraft Sheltered Workshop ensures the highest quality of sewing standards are met.
Workers in the Handcraft Workshop are the students who have completed their studies. They engage on daily basis in sewing, lining, needlework, knitting; earning at the same time an occupational therapy and an actual source of income. Rehabilitation and long-term custody is what IRAP offers these students, eventually what the open labor market fails to.
Workers creating these wonderful items are impaired children who acquired these technical skills with the help of highly specialized trainers in the field of sewing, lining, needlework, knitting, embroidery and textile arts. The use of sewing machines in an effective way, with minimum waste, remains one of the most challenging tasks our students are opened-up to each day. Producing innovated motifs and decorating fabric with needle, thread, yarn, pearls and beads remains one of the fundamentals of our Hand-crafting workshop that makes our production very unique and with the finest quality.
Sewing, Quality and Finishing:
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Workers Creativity and innovation:
Because handcrafting is an innovative process that requires imagination, patience, creativity and taste, we make sure our community of Deaf and Hard of Hearing interact and communicate in a peaceful environment that encourages them to innovate more and more.
Video showing a sample of the sewing process and teamwork of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community and the way they communicate with lip reading and symbols.
The 1st sheltered handcrafting workshop
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Those were our 1st days !
About us
Sweet and salty delights, liquors and art-crafts, all made by IRAP. IRAP is a community for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, an NGO, a charity, a specizlized school and a Sheltered Workshop.
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IRAP Deaf and Hard of Hearing community produces lebanese meza, salty delights, sweet delights, liquors and artcrafts. Feel free to visit our e-shop
Specialties
During holidays, IRAP Deaf and Hard of Hearing community produces specialties for Christmas, Easter, Ramdan, Teacher's and Mother's day
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Where to buy
IRAP POS outlet stores.a short sentence here describing where IRAP delights can be bought.
Supermarket Warde - Achrafieh
Le Gout Frais - Brouman
Le Charcutier Aoun Fanar
Gio market, Jal El Dib, Antelias
AUH CoffeeShop -Beyrouth
Black Pepper - ABC, Dbayeh
Abou Fadel Market - Broumana
Gift Certificate
IRAP POS outlet stores.a short sentence here describing where IRAP delights can be bought.
