A visit to the new state of the art center for adults with learning difficulties, Len Ironside Center in Mastrick Drive, Aberdeen. Photo Le...
A center for £ 4.3 million adults with severe learning disabilities has risen from the ashes, more than three years after the fire.
Training Mastrick place was engulfed in flames in February 2014 and 60 firefighters fought the flames for more than 16 hours.
He began building a new plant in September last year to defend now, after many years of service with the name of the rights of disabled Len Ironside.
M. Ironside, former coordinator of the social work of the city government as a councilor, who resigned after 35 years in May was yesterday the press and the magazine a tour.
Catering for about 50 adults and 35 people, the Center has to teach a wide range of activities essential skills and work, and is the first of its kind in Scotland.
A team of customers tend to be in high-visibility jackets to see the gardens, while loud music, laughter and singing could be heard inside.
A kitchen was set up to teach clients basic skills, washing to make a cup of tea to hang, while a sense of space gives guests the opportunity to relax the view of the lights of different colors and enjoy.
Freda Smith, said the center is a wide range of different conditions is the staff meant to as much variety as possible offer.
She said: "We have areas of art, science, sensory room, a library and even a language group of characters.
"There is also the challenge of an aging population, we have people who are now 40 and 50 and their parents for them at home still looking as they are in their 70s and 80s.
"I would say that the recovery we have is essential. "
M. The chief said he would be proud moved to the center of his legacy into consideration.
He said: "In the past, there is an accent is that a place for guests was to spend a day, now they are learning all kinds of new skills.
"It is also an opportunity for members of the community customers outside the house to see and learn for both parties.
"I have to fight my life in politics for the rights of people with disabilities and to see the new system is working honestly more than I dreamed of. "
