Saeb Salam, then Prime Minister, on the occasion of the center’s inauguration, stands amazed at this unique pilot concept: adults with disabilities are employed and delivering marketable goods that simply subsidize education and paramedical services. He honors this work by granting Al-Kafaŕt the Lebanese Order of Cedars (Knight).

War breaks out in 1975. The Lily Shwayri Center is destroyed and looted. Access to the center is impossible for a while. In the meantime, Nadim starts constructing Our Lady’s Center.

Access to the Lily Shwayri Center is possible again in 1979. During that same year, Nadim initiates the construction of The Village.

During that same year, access to Lily Shwayri Centre becomes impossible because of the war. All activities are then moved to Our Lady's Center. It will not be before 1991 that access to the Lily Shwayri Center becomes possible.

Construction of the Village in hindered by the war. While construction started in 1979, it was not until 1983 that the center became operational. A fully-functional compound for the employment of adults with mental disabilities and cerebral palsy, the Village was occupied and partially destroyed again during the 80s. The center was operational for only one year in 1983, but abandoned until 1991 when peace prevailed.

Nadim publishes the history of Al-Kafaàt in 1982, on the occasion of the silver jubilee of the Foundation. The book “We are all handicapped” wins the Michel Berty award during that same year.

In the meantime, he initiates at Our Lady's center vocational training and technical education, in parallel with academic and special education. To cater for all populations in this center – now that all other centers were occupied and destroyed – all small spaces were used (even balconies!).

Myriam Center was quickly constructed in 1986 to answer the growing needs for space and services. It delivers pre-vocational special education to children with mental challenges and Down syndrome, aged between 5 and 15 years.

The original Catering School of Al-Kafaàt is then relocated to its current location in Mansourieh and inaugurated in 1990. In 1993, the EUROPA Campus of Technology welcomes its first batch of vocational training and technical education students after relocating the vocational activities from Our Lady's center. Our Lady's is today the home of the Al-Kafaàt academic school, integrating children with disabilities.

In 1991, Al-Kafaàt resumes its activities at the Lily Shwayri and the Village centers. The Lily Shwayri center hosts today different services for children and adults that face developmental disorders.

In 1997, on the occasion of its 40 th anniversary, Al-Kafaàt is decorated with the Lebanese Order of Cedars (Officer). During that same year, Nadim publishes the sequel of “We are all handicapped”. He publishes a more spiritual book during that same year “The Church of Man, the Church of Life ” where Nadim talks about his spiritual convictions and his act of faith, all embodied in the work of Al-Kafaàt.

In 1999, the EUROPA Campus is accredited as higher education Campus.