Amarat Agbaria
Occupational clinic with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in occupational therapy with honors at the University of Haifa. She has 15 years of experience in special education, loves her job very much and sees it as a mission and vocation. As part of her work, she takes care of students and also guides therapists. The school operates a unique program of combining arts and sports. She took upon herself the integration of sports and art in treatments and classes, and encouraged all therapists to learn together the ways for the best combination. A special program of Zoom meetings was established for girls studying at the school on the topic of imparting hygiene skills and dealing with puberty while integrating mothers into the program. Every year a new group is opened at the request of the girls and mothers. Initiated and led the adoption of a site in the settlement of Umm El Fahm, where she recruited students with intellectual disabilities aged 14 and over to make decorations on the site as part of the contribution to the community. The decorations were built at the school under her leadership and with the cooperation of the art teacher. "As an occupational therapist first and foremost, my profession is educational and rehabilitative therapy whose overarching goal in every intervention is to encourage people to get involved and take an active part in meaningful activities and occupations as a way to achieve independence and optimal participation despite the limitation." "One of the programs I am most proud of is the Alamel Cafeteria: an intervention environment that is based on the construction and operation of a cafeteria designed to be an opportunity to prepare 11 teenagers at the school for working life, as an initial and preliminary step to entering the labor market. Today, thanks to this environment, the students enter the labor market with knowledge, skills and habits that allow them to integrate and work. Two graduates of the school integrated themselves into working in a supermarket in their village."


