Bashar Shamarah, Ambassador of Syria in Budapest visited the András Pető Faculty of Semmelweis University. The Ambassador met with the Faculty leadership to discuss the possibility of restarting the previous Syrian conductive education project.
During the visit, representatives of the Faculty presented its structure and operations, discussed international relations, available services, and Conductive Education itself. The presentation also showcased the Syrian project launched in 2008, which ran for several years, during which our Faculty’s colleagues assisted Syrians living with Cerebral Palsy in a development centre in Damascus.
During the visit, Bashar Shamarah personally observed the early intervention, kindergarten, and adult groups, thus seeing the implementation of Conductive Education live. In the subsequent discussion, he expressed his strong desire to successfully relaunch the previous project and for conductors to travel to Syria again to help those in need. He will convey this message to the leadership of his country and is confident that an agreement can be reached in the near future.