QRCS marks World Autism Awareness Day

QRCS premises lit up in blue.

Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has marked World Autism Awareness Day, celebrated globally on April 2 every year. Friday, QRCS’s premises were lit in blue, in solidarity with the worldwide campaign to raise awareness about autism, call for the social integration of persons with autism, and promote their rights as equal individuals who need special care to live normally. This celebration "reflects QRCS’s great attention paid to vulnerable groups, as a top priority for its strategy of development locally and internationally, inspired by its mission of saving lives and preserving dignity", QRCS has said in a press statement. QRCS offers a wide range of assistance for persons with autism and other vulnerable groups. These include payment of costs of treatment for poor patients, programmes and events addressed to persons with disabilities (including autism), mobilisation of resources to empower those persons and meet their needs, and contribution to the programmes of the government health authorities in this respect.