Recreational -Artistic Training- Activities in 14 public primary school in Balbeek and Hermel
Start Date:2007-05-01
End Date:2009-05-01
Description:
The proposed project aims at fostering a school culture of children rights, the latter will contribute to the reduction of drop out rates through rendering available a wide array of recreational, cultural and educational activities for children. The project will rely on the child s right based approach to programming in all its interventions. The project will undertake capacity building of school and community stakeholders including, Parents associations, NGOs, MOSA centres, municipalities, on the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in general and Participation Rights in particular, as well as the Right to leisure, culture and play. The latter will receive capacity building in order to acquire skills for subsequent delivery of education sessions for children on Children Rights Accordingly, the project will make available capacity building relevant resources, namely training modules on recreation and peer to peer. Moreover the project will advocate for the principles and provisions of the CRC, and the project approaches.
The project is based on Article 31 of the CRC, which stipulates that " States Parties recognize the right of the child to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts" and that "States Parties shall respect and promote the right of the child to participate fully in cultural and artistic life and shall encourage the provision of appropriate and equal opportunities for cultural, artistic, recreational and leisure activity".
Furthermore participation is an essential characteristic of the child as an active subject of rights. For this reason, it is seen as a general principle of fundamental importance to implementation of all aspects of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Boys and girls are seen as active holders of rights and individuals whose views and opinions should be given serious consideration. Thus the project will rely on Childrens participation rights as set out in Articles 12, 13, 14, 15 and 17 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. These cover:
- The right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion
- The right to information
- The right to express views freely in all matters affecting him or her (with those views given due weight in accordance with the child s age and maturity)The right to freedom of expression
- The right to freedom of association.
Activities:
Capacity Building
- 2 workshops organized for 60 participants (15 school teachers, 15 NGOs, 15 MOSA or municipalities) trained on the CRC/Participation and life skills
- 2 workshops organized for the same participants on recreational activities including artistic, animation and cultural (tools for recreational activities organization)
- 2 workshops organized peer the peer education for the same participants
Training Materials
- 120 copies of pilot Training Manual compiled on the topics of the workshops and printed and made available
- 200 copies of adapted and finalized Training Manual compiled and published and made available for school activities of year 2 of the project
- 200 copies of Training Manual on peer to peer education
Recreational Activities
- Direct recreational sessions delivered by the 60 previously trained facilitators to 1320 primary school students from 14 identified public schools. Sessions include a wide array of topics in compliance with the received training namely, recreational, artistic, life skills, CRC, participation, peer to peer methodologies. All sessions will be based on the principles of the CRC. It is estimated that each child will benefit from a maximum of 3 sessions per month whereby children will be divided into groups of 15 in order to maintain participatory intervention
- 2 Cultural/ Educational visits organized for 1320 students, to an archaeological site and or touristy site
28 End of year day camps will be organized in the targeted 14 schools as a celebration of the year recreational achievements, whereby this activity will represent an opportunity for presenting the deliverables of all the year activities, which might include drawing exhibition, plays, Moreover the day camps will involve the school actors as well as the surrounding community including parents, NGOs, MOSA, municipalities. This activity will build on the community resources and will endeavour the mobilization of volunteers.
- 28 artistic and cultural events organized by professionals including the 14 schools including concerts, plays.
- 1 film produced. The project will adopt the evaluation for capacity building approach, through a short film which will feature children, the latter will participate in its production assisted by a film specialist. The film is an implicit evaluation tool and documentation tool and concurrently will allow expression of views and story telling pertaining to children empowerment process and outcome. The film production will be a compilation of the different activities implemented with and by children and will accompany the whole project.
Networking and Sustainability
- Establishment of 14 children school councils which will represent a platform for the children to express their views and needs with respect to the implemented activities as well as other needs (children councils will be facilitated by the children themselves and guided by the schools steering committees)
- 14 mobilized steering committees. Regular meetings to plan and coordinate the recreational activities as well provide guidance to the children councils and network with others relevant committees in the school.
Advocacy
- Production of supporting communication and visibility materials including flyers, posters
- 3 one day conference organized for a group of 50 stakeholders including MOE, 14 School Directors, HCC, MOSA, NGO, Parents Association, Childrens., including the steering committees for the second and third conference in order to establish a mechanism of exchange between the 14 committees.
Objectives:
The overall Objective:
To Contribute to the realization of Children Rights especially participation rights and leisure play and culture and to contribute to the retention of children in schools and decrease drop out rates
The Specific objectives:
To raise the awareness and build the Capacities of various stakeholders directly working with children in the school context with respect to the CRC , participation rights and recreational rights as well as social responsibility
- To make available relevant training manuals for recreational activities providers
- To render recreational activities available for children
- To Empower the school actors and mobilize the surrounding school community in order to create sustainable mechanisms of child right oriented recreational activities
- To advocate for the rights stipulated in the overall objective and secure commitment of key stakeholders
Partnership:
The Project will be develop in strong partnership with Unicef Lebanon, AL JANA Media Center, Permanent Peace Movement and the public structure involved in the field of education and social affairs
Fields of Intervention:
Education/Educational Programme, Social Activities/Advocacy Programme,
Locations Covered:
Kadaa Covered:
Hermel, Baalbek,
Beneficiaries:
Local community members/ Children & Adolescents/ Associations or institutional bodies/
Additional Information:
Un Ponte per... is waiting to sign the PCA with Unicef Lebanon in order to start project implementation
Project Name:
Shabab (Youth): Vocational Training, Scholarships and educational support in order to improve youth employment opportunities in Bourj El Chemali Palestinian refugee camp (Tyre- South Lebanon)
Start Date:2006-09-15
End Date:2008-09-15
Description:
According to the data provided by the European Delegation in Lebanon more than 60% of the Palestinian refugees are living under the poverty line, 36% have no income at all; unemployment rate within the refugee camps is about 60-70%. Also the Lebanese law concerning the right to work contributes to this situation as Palestinian refugees in Lebanon cannot officially apply for 75 kinds of jobs.
The project aims at the creation of 16 vocational training workshops (for a term of 4 months each) with external high- qualified educators who previously collaborated with the local partner within vocational training programmes. Classes will take place simultaneously (4 tranches, 4 months each), 3 days a week in the afternoon plus a weekly full time day for the practical activities. At the end of the course, before the beginning of the internship, students will be given a starting kit of work tools in order to let them start micro activities inside or outside the camps. The local partner has been working in this kind of projects for about twelve years, starting several collaborations in Lebanon, Canada, Italy and France. In particular after all these years working in Bourj El Chemali camp BAS is highly qualified in vocational training field. BAS team in Burj El Chemali regularly carries out researches and statistics concerning youth living conditions in the camps. Statistics shows that around 50% of the students who attended the training workshops, despite the unpleasant restrictions imposed by the Lebanese law, manage to find a job and to improve their socioeconomic conditions and those of their own families.
Activities:
The project will intervene in the following fields:
1. Basic education (implementation of remedial classes and basic literacy classes);
2. Vocational training and scholarships;
3. Interdisciplinary education through an exchange of young Italian, Palestinian and Lebanese volunteers aiming at developing relationship and dialogue activities.
Activity 1
Carrying out 2 one-year remedial courses attended by 25 female students per course.
The course will be organised for children of 7-12 years old. Each course will be run for 9 months/years. The classes will be held for 5 days per week. The remedial classes will be focused on the following subject: arab, mat and science. The classes will supplement the UNRWA school program, providing also lesion for english language and IT. The monitoring of the children will be assured by the teacher and the assistant who will organize also meeting with UNRWA teachers in order to analyze problems and enhance collaborations. Each months an evaluation will be carry out by the BAS staff, in order to monitoring the learning process
Carrying out 2 one-year literacy courses attended by 20 female students per course.
These courses will be run for 10 months each year. The beneficiaries will be mostly girl who are out from UNRWA school system. This kind of course will be implementing in a multidisciplinary way, providing knowledge about the hygiene, good practices for the healthy conservation of the food, cooking clubs, handicraft and lectures. The teaching method will involve teachers, assistant and social workers in order to assure a comprehensive approach to the special needs group
Activity 2
- Creation of 4 vocational training courses regarding the installation and maintenance of plumbing attended by 15 male students per course.
- Creation of 4 vocational training courses regarding the installation and maintenance of electrical systems attended by 15 male students per course.
- Creation of 4 vocational training courses regarding the installation and assemblage of floorings and surfaces (TILING) attended by 15 male students per course.
- Creation of 4 vocational training courses regarding iron, aluminum and copper manufacturing techniques attended by 15 male students per course.
These vocational training courses will be dedicated to young people: 18-25 years old. The training will be composed in a theory and practical part, manual laboratory and apprenticeship in local micro enterprises and workroom.
The trainers will be supported by a multidisciplinary team composed by a supervisor, trainers and social workers. This team is already working inside the centers managed by the local partner and it will monitor the general social condition inside the camps and do an assessment in order to identify the beneficiaries looking at the most deserving and needy situations. This work will be done together with and in collaboration with the popular committee elected inside the camps. The social workers manage a data based related to the camp young population: professional training needs, socio-economical support and employment situation. The team will also act as a tutor for the students, with special attention to: job orientation, identification of personal skills, job relational skills, identification of working places where to do the stage and to accompany the benificiaries. The training courses will last 4 months each, with the support of experienced and qualified external trainers that have already worked with the local partner in a past vocational training project. Each training will have a technical part and a motivating one.
The technical part will be organized in theoretical and practical lessons through working groups in classroom, work experience in the camps and stage in already existing structures outside the camps.
Beneficiaries will attend classes 3 afternoon per week and one full time day to develop practical activities. At the end of the training courses, before the stage, the participants will receive a tools kit to allow them to start working activities inside and outside camps.
- Award 25 scholarships for vocational training courses organized by technical high schools in Beirut and Tyre.
The establishment of a special found for scholarship in vocational institutes - officially recognized by the Lebanese legislations - outside camps and the beneficiaries will be women living inside the camps. Local partner and vocational institutes have already signed a convention.
The vocational trainings will be selected between the ones not restricted by the Lebanese legislation as: secretary jobs, nursing sector and some tourist activities.
Vocational trainings outside the camps is a qualifier aspect of the project strategy as it aims to facilitate the interaction and the sharing between Palestinian and Lebanese youth in a protected environment like the vocational institutes. Moreover, encouraging female outside camp experiences it helps to empower the young female population giving them real tools for a cultural and social growth.
Activity 3
- Volunteer Work Camps
Palestinian, Lebanese, European and Italian young volunteers will participate in this activity involving around 100 volunteers for a period of two weeks.
This can be a very important experience for the camp population who is living in a sort of isolation and marginalisation. But it can be very important also for the European volunteers who have the chance to get first hand information about the real living conditions of the Palestinian refugees; they can collect news and documents to disseminate when back home and better explain the need of a fair peace for the Israeli Palestinian conflict. The volunteers will implement different kind of activities following a program decided jointly by UPP and BAS. A local coordinator and an expatriate one will manager the ?Volunteer Work Camp? and its activities through specific working groups on different issues:
- Art and creativity (music, dance, drawing, theater, photography lab, crafts and decoration);
- environment and habitat (herbs and flowers picking/exposition, camp cleaning days, basic restoration and improvement of the camps, house walls decorations);
- seminars about health, culture, habits and customs, peace and security, youth role in the Mediterranean integration process;
- sport and play (tournament sports, treasure hunt, role-playing games, trips outside the camps);
UPP will be in charge to valuate the European and Italian volunteer profiles, according to the programmed activities, to select them and to train them before the departure. BAS staff will select and train the Palestinian and Lebanese volunteers. The volunteers will be divided in groups and a volunteer will be selected to be the coordinator of the group supporting in this way UPP and BAS staff persons.
All the activities will be carried on with a participative approach in order to guarantee a real and active participation of all the volunteers in the implementation of all the activities.
Objectives:
1. Raising the employment rate referred to the Palestinian youth (18-25 years old);
2. Strengthening of vocational training and university education?s possibilities for the Palestinian youth;
3. Increasing the general level of education, competences/ knowledge of the Palestinian youngsters (10-25 years old);
4. Contributing to a better knowledge/ confrontation between the European youth and the Middle-Eastern one;
5. Promoting the knowledge of the Palestinian refugees? living conditions both in Italy and in Lebanon;
Partnership:
The National Institution for Social Care and Vocational Training- Beit Atfal al- Sumud (BAS) is a Lebanese- Palestinian non governmental organization founded in 1976 and involved in development and relief programmes helping the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. BAS is a non party and non religious NGO which develops activities helping both Palestinian refugees and other minorities in Lebanon (such as immigrants and those claiming for asylum).
This project was conceived among the strong collaboration between BAS and UPP, after they entered in a strategic partnership agreement in 2001;
Fields of Intervention:
Education/Chidren/adolescents Programme, Social Activities/Awareness Campaign,
Locations Covered:
Borj ech Chmali, Rachidiye,
Kadaa Covered:
Tyre,
Beneficiaries:
Women/ / Palestinian caretakers/ Hardship cases/ Children & Adolescents/
Additional Information:
Project Name:
SUPPORT FOR THE RENOVATION OF THE SOCIAL, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES IN THE AREAS AFFECTED BY THE CONFLICT (SOUTH LITANI AND EAST BEKAA)
Start Date:2007-03-21
End Date:2007-03-21
Description:
The project aims to increase development opportunities in the local communities considered through the reactivation and improvement of educational and cultural activities in the area, aimed to strengthen local resources and skills in human development, education for peace and inter-community dialogue, increasing at the same time the awareness on environmental issue, gender topics, civic education and social participation.
The actions will be addressed to children, young people and women but aims to involve all the communities, promoting their active participation and involvement in the project s activities, in order to encourage processes of individual and collective social emancipation, with particular attention to the aspects related to the local culture. The activities will involve 2 community centres located in the villages of Deir Qanoun El Nahr (Tyre) and Houla (Marjayoun) and will include the setting up of a network of local formal and informal groups, which will organize activities in the area of South Litani and East Bekaa, involving the Jana Media Centre.
The intervention will include the restoration and renovation of social, educational and cultural activities in the areas, through the organization of residential activities in the 2 centres and itinerant actions located in other areas particularly affected by the conflict, with the support of the Jana Media Centre. The objective is to improve the offer of educational and cultural activities in the area, through a strategy of reinforcement, communication and training addressed to volunteers, local associations, young people and social organizations in the villages. Furthermore, the Media Centre will be responsible of the training of the volunteers which will organize, in cooperation with thematic experts and the directors, the residential activities in the 2 centres.
The project will also include the construction or rebuilding of small local infrastructures in the centres and in the villages, to be assign for social activities, with a participatory approach which will involve young people, the whole communities and municipalities, and other local human resources already present in the area.
The JANA Media Centre of Beirut, which has 15 years of work experience in the cultural promotion and youth empowerment, through the organization of trainings and itinerant educational activities in the same areas of the project, will offer specific trainings by the use of art and audio-visual techniques (on the issues indicated in the specific objective of the project), and will organize cultural events in different localities in the South Litani area, in the East Bekaa area and in the villages where the centres are located. Such activities will be implemented according to a strategy of integrated intervention, thematic relevance and use of the skills of the different local partners. The activities will aim to increase awareness and knowledge on the relationship between media, art, human development and peace promotion. The centres of Deir Qanoun El Nahr and Houla will organize educational and cultural activities located in the same centres, setting up a calendar of different activities according to the beneficiaries age , and involving other villages in the area, through the participation of local volunteers adopting and ICE strategy (information, communication, education). The intervention aims to provide skills to the target groups, training them on active learning of the issues mentioned in the specific objective, providing the centres green spaces and playgrounds, realizing courses of expressive arts (cinema, music, theatre, painting, dance) related to the issues indicated in the specific objective, organizing discussion groups for young people, according their age, sporting and recreational activities, recycling laboratories, reading sessions, musical education sessions, working groups of research on specific themes, basic language and computer trainings and, through the involvement of the target community, identification of useful social projects to be implemented in co-operation with the local municipalities.
The process of rehabilitation and improvement of the centre s infrastructures, together with the strengthening of local skills and resources, will contribute, with the support of the project human and material resources, to increase the centre s offer of educational activities and itinerant thematic workshops in the areas, together with activities of cultural promotion both in the centres and outside. These results will contribute to the social, environmental and human development of the settlements, to the improvement of the community social conditions and to the availability of activitys, in particularly marginalised areas affected by the conflict of Summer 2006.
The intervention is aimed to set up a programme of cultural, educational and training activities (both itinerant and located in the centres) addressed to the centres and to the communities interested, which will be carried out through the support of local networks, which has collaborate with UPP and its partners during the first phase of the emergency.
The intervention is aimed, in the long term, to delineate a policy of activity management addressed to the whole community in the areas, in terms of realization of public centres and the collective accessibility of their resources (library, cinema library, internet and computer rooms, printing, writing and photo editing activitys, games library, playground).
Activities:
EXPECTED RESULT 1:
Two social centres rehabilitated to use, equipped and operative, activities carried out in the re-establishment of social infrastructures in the villages:
1.1 Realization of a garden in the centre at Deir Qanoun El Nahr
1.2 Realization of a garden in the centre at Houla
1.3 Creation of a playground in the Deir Qanoun El Nahr centre
1.4 Setting up of 2 libraries in Deir Qanoun and Houla centres
1.5 Realization of 2 media rooms in the Deir Qanoun and Houla centres
1.6 Production of 2 games libraries in the centres of Houla and Deir Qanoun El Nahr
1.7 Realization of 2 IT rooms in the Houla and Deir Qanoun El Nahr centres
1.8 Creation of 2 funds for micro interventions in the social infrastructure of the villages of Houla and Deir Qanoun El Nahr.
EXPECTED RESULT 2:
Networks of volunteers, local associations, young people and social organizations and operators will be reinforced in organisational terms, in terms of skilla and relationships between them:
2.1 48 days of training for the volunteers of the Houla and Deir Qanoun centres and for the local associations which are active in project s areas
2.2 Sound and Image Workshop, Training of Trainers (ToT) for the 15 operators of the network of local associations part of the JANA Media Centre.
2.3 Realization of 6 field workshops in Sound and Image Creation
EXPECTED RESULT 3:
The realization of educational activities and residential training sessions, through daily activities in the 2 centres:
3.1 Organisation of 12 hour a week educational activities with children (5-12 years) in the Houla and Deir Qanoun centres
3.2 Organisation of 6 hours a week of educational activities with adolescents (12-15 years old) in the Houla and Deir Qanoun El Nahr centres
3.3 Organisation of six hours a week of educational and training activities with young people (age 15-18 ) in the Houla and Deir Qanoun centres
3.4 Training activity and capacity building for women between 18 and 28 in the Houla and Deir Qanoun centres (IT, speak up groups, creation of committees for voluntary work)
EXPECTED RESULT 4:
Cultural promotion in the centres and across the national territory, carried out with particular reference to the areas most affected by the conflict (South Litani, South Beirut and Bekaa)
4.1 To set up a critical media workshop in preparation for the film festival in the JANA Media Centre
4.2 Realization of an international cinema festival for children and young children (JANA International Film Festival for Children and Youth)
4.3 Creation of 10 itinerant screenings in the area to the South of the Litani and the East Bekaa
4.4 Setting up of 2 musical events for the promotion of bands f young linked to the Media Centre
4.5 Setting up of 6 cultural events in the Houla and Deir Qanoun El Nahr centres
Objectives:
To increase development opportunities of the local communities through the re-establishment and improvement of educational and cultural activities in the area, strengthening local resources and skills in human development issues, education for peace and inter-community dialogue, increasing at the same time the awareness on environmental issue, gender topics, civic education and social participation.
Partnership:
The Project will be developped trought a strong partnership with AL JANA Media Center, AIDLEBANON, Houla Cultural Center.
The Project is part of "Programma Emergenza LIbano ROSS" issued by Cooperazione Italiana. Coordination mechanism are implemented by the NGO in collaboration with the ROSS office in Beirut.
