United Aid for Azerbaijan (UAFA)
UAFA and Bakcell started implementing the “Art Communication for Children with Disabilities” project in February 2010. The project aims to engage children with physical and intellectual disabilities through art to develop their physical, cognitive and 
social skills. Within the frame of the project, about 60 children took dancing, drawing and photography lessons, which facilitated their physical, cognitive and social development. On March 3, 2011, Bakcell and UAFA organized a grand event “My colourful dreams” featuring an exhibition and concert program of children who attended Bakcell Stars-UAFA project. Following the event Bakcell conducted an SMS charity campaign to support the expansion of the UAFA project. To build upon the previous success of the project and bring more specialized activities to the lives of children with disabilities, and their families, in other regions of Azerbaijan, UAFA extended this project to two more branches of UAFA’s Community-Based Rehabilitation Centers – in Khachmaz and Ganja. Dancing, art and photography activities continue and theatre and sewing lessons were introduced at Yasamal center with the involvement of more children with disabilities.
UAFA was founded in 1998 to provide specialized services for children with special needs. The main goal of the organisation is to improve service quality for disabled children and assist the government in deinstitutionalization reform aimed at reducing the number of children in state institutions.
