About the project

What follows is the human and institutional foundation of the project: where the idea came from, who carried it when nobody else would, and how it is meant to be run.

Vision and mission

The vision: to establish an integrated humanitarian city that becomes a pioneering model in Sudan for the care, rehabilitation and empowerment of people with special needs — guaranteeing a dignified life, appropriate education, vocational rehabilitation, and integrated health and social care.

إنشاء مدينة إنسانية متكاملة تُعد نموذجًا رائدًا في السودان لرعاية وتأهيل وتمكين ذوي الاحتياجات الخاصة، بما يضمن لهم حياة كريمة، وتعليمًا مناسبًا، وتأهيلًا مهنيًا، ورعاية صحية واجتماعية متكاملة.

The mission: to deliver comprehensive, sustainable services to blind people, deaf and mute people, people with physical disabilities and children with autism, through a safe and advanced environment that promotes independence, social integration and productivity.

تقديم خدمات شاملة ومستدامة للمكفوفين، والصم والبكم، وذوي الإعاقة الحركية، وأطفال التوحد، عبر بيئة آمنة ومتطورة تُعزز الاستقلالية والاندماج المجتمعي والإنتاجية.

And how the project defines itself: a specialised institution providing medical, educational and vocational services to raise a person’s independence and their integration into society.

The vision and mission are quoted in the original Arabic alongside the English. They were written in Arabic, and the phrasing carries weight that a translation alone does not.

The four objective pillars

Humanitarian: A dignified life for people with special needs, relief of the burden on their families, and social justice with real inclusion.
Healthcare: Specialised rehabilitation and therapy, support for diagnosis and early intervention, and improved quality of life.
Educational: Specialised education programmes, assistive learning technology, and inclusive learning environments.
Economic: Vocational training that makes beneficiaries productive and able to earn, and partial financial sustainability for the complex.

The story

This is the truest thing the project owns, and it has never been told anywhere public.

In 2010, the idea was put to local officials. Its proponents were told they were dreamers, that the idea was an insult to the locality, and that they were seeking fame.

It then continued for fifteen years.

What you see on this site — the approved plan, the medical centre specification, the statistical analysis — is what those years produced. This is not a recently floated idea. It is an idea that was rejected, and not let go of.

Acknowledgements

Those who stood with the project when it was still a rejected idea:

The late Ibrahim Al-Tahir: Former Commissioner of Berber Locality. المرحوم إبراهيم الطاهر
Shams Al-Din Abdul Aziz Abu Ammar: Head of the Popular Committee for the Development of Berber. العم / شمس الدين عبد العزيز أبو عمار
Maj. Gen. Mahjoub Hamza: President of the Association of Berber Locality Natives in Khartoum. اللواء / محجوب حمزة
The locality staff: Those working in the offices of the Berber Locality government at the time, who took the idea up and revived it.

What the logo means

The identity is deliberately symbolic, and its meanings are set down in the project’s own documents:

A golden arc shaped as a sheltering hand: Surrounding the central symbols: containment, protection, support, a safe environment.
A blue figure with raised arms: Hope, ambition, launching forward, transcending disability — empowerment, not incapacity. That meaning governs the language used across this entire site.
An integrated heart: That care flows from compassion, affection and moral responsibility, not from technical rehabilitation alone.
The "Berber Locality" wordmark: Institutional identity: it defines the geographic scope and administrative affiliation, and makes the mark an official one.
Dark blue and gold: Blue for trust, stability and professionalism; gold for high value and distinction — the two colours of this site.

The original logo files are not yet available in vector form, so the project name appears here set in type rather than as a mark. That gap will be closed before launch.

The proposed governance structure

Board of trustees: Community figures, doctors, engineers, legal professionals, business people, and representatives of people with special needs. The founding document leaves the remaining seats open.
Executive management: A project director, a director of medical affairs, a director of education and rehabilitation, a director of finance, a director of public relations, a director of operations and maintenance, and a director of engineering affairs.
The design engineer: The master site plan was prepared by Eng. Mohamed Osman Hassan Musa, who signs the project documents.

The board of trustees has not been formed. Forming it is a phase-one output, alongside completing the legal status and opening official accounts. What is set out above is a proposed structure, not a seated one.

Target partners

The bodies the project is seeking to open channels with:

Government: Berber Locality, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Social Welfare.
Local: Corporate social responsibility programmes within the locality, business people, civil society organisations, factories, banks and companies.
International: UNICEF, the World Health Organization, UNDP, the King Salman Center for Disability Research, international organisations, Arab charitable foundations, and endowment funds.

This is a list of target bodies, not existing partners. There is no partnership in place today with any organisation named here. Listing them states an intention and nothing more.