The House of Hope for the Blind & Mentally Handicapped was founded in 1962 by a blind woman named May Lad'a and her assistant, Christine Dawood, and the services provided by the association were limited to blind people of both sexes over 12 years of age. The association provides shelter, psychological, health and vocational care services by training the residents in some traditional industries such as making straw and bamboo baskets and chairs, in addition to making rugs and floor mops and teaching blind women to hand weave. The association also helps them complete their postgraduate studies in the surrounding schools and universities in Bethlehem governorate.

This collection contains photographs of the residents of the House of Hope for the Blind & Mentally Handicapped, which aimed to empower them academically and teach them some traditional crafts such as rug making, basket making, and bamboo, in order to integrate them into society. The collection also contains several passports of the residents dating back to the 1940s, 1970s and 1980s, and a British defence document issued during World War II.