The National Association of Blind and its 32 years in Camagüey

Camagüey. The National Association of Blind in Cuba was founded , (ANCI) is the first unable organization that is believed in the country, and although before the Revolution (1959) there was some flash of this grouping type were only small lacking groups of coherence, legal and support forces of the State.

2 in the same month but of the year 1978 the ANCI is believed in Camagüey and from that date its constant work for the community invident and weak visual is characterized by the constants actions that promotes for the incorporation from this populational segment to the society in an useful way.

In the 13 municipalities of the county a branch works facilitating the direct attention to the associates.
In this sense the rehabilitation is achieved with bigger results and the movement of activists at municipal level it plays a fundamental part to achieve the insert of the unable in the society.

These activists receive appropriate courses that qualify them in the handling of the international norms so that the person invident or weak visual achieves the abilities that allows them the appropriate orientation for the mobility.

Other important achievements of the ANCI in the territory are the incorporation to the study, to the work, to the sport and the cultural activities of a considerable number of its membership.

The ANCI together with the National Association of Deaf of Cuba (ANSOC) welcomes in its lines to people with the double physical limitation and develops a group of actions to incorporate them to the useful life in the measure of its physical conditions..

The same as the adults the children and young with this discapacity also belong to the Association.
The invident children and adolescent and weak visual as the deaf ones and the limited physical motors have guaranteed their studies in special schools.

The ANCI like the other unable associations have the full support of the Cuban State.(María Socarrás H.)