Sustainable Development Is the Foundation of the Collaboration Between Saudi Telecom Company and Ynmo

“Empowering People with Disabilities” is an initiative for education and rehabilitation service providers for persons with disabilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, supported by the Corporate Social Responsibility department at the Saudi Telecom Company. This initiative launched at the beginning of the academic year 1441/1442 AH, with the participation of more than 340 students with disabilities and 180 of their teachers and practitioners from various regions across the Kingdom (Makkah Al-Mukarramah, Jeddah, Riyadh, Dammam, Al-Khobar, Madinah Al-Munawwarah, Hail, Al-Kharj). The initiative included the following: providing a one-year free subscription to the Ynmo platform, 74 support sessions, monthly reports, and 12 training hours.

Although the initiative was launched during the COVID-19 pandemic, the results exceeded expectations. All centers for persons with disabilities successfully used the Ynmo platform to design and manage individualized educational and rehabilitation programs and to generate periodic and developmental progress reports during the first semester of 2020 and the second semester of 2021. More than 475,498 learning opportunities and over 22,913 mastered skills were recorded. The impact assessment survey results showed that the Ynmo platform saved time for the vast majority of practitioners; specifically, around 56.6% saved approximately 4 hours per student per month, which is estimated to yield a return on investment of up to 60% over five years according to the latest studies in this field. The majority of participants expressed their satisfaction with the Ynmo training program (86%) and indicated that they would direct their colleagues to participate in this training in the future (95.7%). Usage results also showed 79% teacher satisfaction with designing individualized educational and rehabilitation programs, 80.7% with writing and issuing reports, 84.3% with the method of data collection and progress monitoring, and 82% with the method of family communication. The outcomes of this initiative demonstrated that equipping disability service providers with appropriate tools and programs contributes to empowering persons with disabilities—one of the core pillars of the Sustainable Development Goals. Accordingly, the number of beneficiaries of the initiative should be increased given its tangible impact on these children and those who care for them.

Originally published in Arabic. This English version was produced with AI-assisted translation; the Arabic original remains the reference.