SMX started free intensive training for NGO s on these subjects:
Beginning Blogging.
Search Engine Optimization & Digital Fundraising.
Online Collaboration.
Facebook Activism & Social Networking.
Online Audio for Advocacy: Podcasting for NGOs and Civil Society Organizations.
Online Video for Advocacy: Your Organization in 60 Seconds.
For more details please check our blog:
www.socialmediaexchange.blogspot.com
or contact us on: 03 792 505
email:mohamad@therootspace.org
Within the Framework of the European Initiative for Democracy & Human Rights (EIDHR)
A Project Funded by the European Union, Implemented by KRC
Khiam Center: Graduation Ceremony for thirty trainees in the domain against violence
Dr. Dureidi: The experience of Khiam Center is a pioneering one in the fight against torture and the rehabilitation of its victims across the Southern Countries and across the world as well
Safa: The standard of the development of any country is the commitment to human rights
Several studies have classified Akkar as one of the
most deprived regions in Lebanon, with the highest
overall poverty rates in the country. In 1998, Akkar was
home to 12.5 percent of the poorest segment of the
population in the country, with 63.3 percent of the
families in this region living in poverty. Akkar has the
lowest average individual income level and highest
illiteracy rate in Lebanon. The region is characterized by a dense population and a high age-dependency rate.
Akkar shows all the typical features of a poor and
relatively isolated rural community, with bad
infrastructure and low quality education and health
services. Limited sources of income, as well as limited
support from the public sector and civil society, has
created a vicious cycle of poor living conditions and
increased the level of marginalization of vulnerable
groups.
More than 14 years after his arrest, and despite the torture to which he was subjected by the Syrian Intelligence Services and the Lebanese Judiciary Police in order to get him to confess, and even though he never stopped claiming innocence, the Palestinian Youssef Chaabane who is a resident of Lebanon is serving a life sentence.
Each day is one more day behind bars for Youssef Chaabane who has literally been forgotten for so many years in prison in Lebanon and is the victim of not just one, but several, egregious violations of justice.
CLDH call to all those who refuse that in Lebanon, like anywhere else in the world, people are being tortured and indefinitely and arbitrarily denied their freedom.
Let’s act in order to free Youssef Chaabane!
Join the Family and Friends of Youssef Chaabane
in a SOLIDARITY SIT IN On Sunday 10 of August, from 10:00 am till 12:00 pm In Raouche – Corniche el Manara – Beirut
“Hewarna" is a series of dialogues that will encompass social, environmental, economic and political topics using indoor and outdoor team-building and obstacle courses. The ultimate objective is to offer Lebanese youth the opportunity to develop their leadership, communication, problem-solving and teamwork skills.
“Hewarna” project is implemented by AFDC, funded by the EU and managed by OMSAR within the framework of the AFKAR II project. The project aims at strengthening the Lebanese civil society, through engaging the most vital societal segment, the youth, in constructive dialogue sessions.
The Hewarna program consists of a 9 dialogue workshops each consisting of a 3 day once in a lifetime training program, dialogue series and fun experiential learning activities that will be held at MDFCL eco-lodge, Ramlieh, Aley,
AFDC will provide transportation to Ramlieh from Beirut, meals, accommodation and all other necessities at the site.
As such, if you (university students, NGO’s, environmental and social clubs etc.) are interested in participating, please submit your application and confirm your participation in the program as soon as possible through the website http://www.hewarna.org/
Your participation in this pioneer project will allow you to become part of the few that will shape the future of Lebanon using dialogue.
In order to download Hewarna Project Poster please click here
“Masar Association” closed its summer camp in Beit-Ania – Harissa, where a group of volunteers were living a mixed experience of general culture, “taboos” issues, and arts expression. It is to be known that, along the summer camp, participants have produced 8 films reflecting their own points of view concerning the environment, the sexual culture, drugs, sectarianism and conflicts between parties.
A lone yellow kite greeted the visitors approaching Jal al-Baher Beach in Tyre on Tuesday morning. Soon, however, three more buses with Palestinian children from camps all over Lebanon arrived to participate in Tuesday s kite flying festival. Around noon, a bustling crowd of over 600 children could be seen dancing, playing games - on the beach and in the water - and, of course, trying to master the art of kite flying.
Ten young kite-making experts from "Atfal al-Ghad" (Children of Tomorrow) center helped train 60 children in each refugee camp, who subsequently taught other children in their camp, to make kites. On Tuesday, these children brought their kites, with messages renouncing violence or greetings to loved ones written on them, to Jal al-Baher Beach.
"It s great! The children get a chance to get out of the camps, see other parts of Lebanon, and meet lots of other children to make friends with," said one of the participants. This is a much needed break from everyday life in the camps. "The conditions in the camps are often difficult for the children, and they experience a lot of violence, this is a way for them to forget about difficulties and just have fun," said Nadine Muhahi who works for the General Union of Palestinian Women in Beddawi (GUPW).
Before coming to the beach, the centers working in the camps held discussions on violence with the children. During the dialogues "we discover many children who suffer from violence, both at home and in school. Some of them express it through drawing. When they come back from the beach the children are much happier," said Nadine.
For the second year, Handicap International, a non-governmental organization working in refugee camps in Lebanon, organizes an awareness campaign on the topic of violence which is a major problem in the camps. This event - the kite flying festival which brings together groups of children from all over Lebanon - is one of the main happenings of the campaign. Handicap International works together with the organizations Najdeh and GUPW to arrange these activities.
"Children must not hurt each other, or say bad things to each other, this is what we learned," said Nawar, an 8-year-old from Rashidieh camp.
Her friend echoed the same sentiment. "We also learned that violence between a teacher and a student is also a kind of violence." "We like coming to the beach," they both said. "otherwise we are so bored."
In addition to the several hundred children, about 150 mothers joined the trip to the beach. "You usually don t see any fathers who take part in the activities; they are working, or just doing something else," said Ghassan Abou Chaar, the field officer and coordinator of the event for Handicap International. "It is rare to find a father to talk to and who is participating - Arab culture is this way."
The most challenging element of the beach-event for the organizers is safety. With so many children and fewer adults, it is difficult to oversee activities, especially in the water.
Another risk-factor is the garbage that is strewn all over the beach.
"The children pick up something they find and they hurt themselves," Ghassan says. "We have support from the [Tyre] municipality for this event. They were supposed to come, the police and the Red Cross - but I guess they forgot."
The Minister of Administrative Development, Mr Jean OGHASSAPIAN is pleased to invite you to the round table entitled “The volunteers’ status and position inside NGOs institutional infrastructure”
Which will be held on Friday July 25th, 2008 from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
In the Ministry of Administrative Development – Starco Bldg – 5th Floor – Hall 520
Please confirm your participation or non participation by contacting 01/ 357510 Extensions 685 and 136
HI has been implementing awerness campaigns for the past 4 years in collaboration with 6 animation centers of Najdeh and GUPW. For the second year, the campaign’s topic had been chosen to be violence as one of the main intergenerational problems of the camps, especially focusing on the ambivalent relation between love and violence.
Within this campaign, during July, a set of activities will be implemented in: Bedawi camp threw Al Amal Center. Burj El Barajneh camp threw Al sadaka Center. Qasmieh gathering threw Atfal al adala & Shabab Al Moustaqbal centers. Burj el Shemali camp threw Atfal Al Salam Center. Rashidieh camp threw Atfal al Ghad Center. Nahr El Bared camp , adjacent areas.
July activities of the campaign: Flying kites event:
Training to exchange the technique of kite fabrication
Ten young children, experts in kite’s fabrication from the “Atfal Al ghad” center will train and help the other 5 centers children in making Kites.
These workshops will be held on the:
5th of July: Markaz al sadaka/ Burj el barajneh camp.
9th of July: Atfal al adala & Chabab al moustakbal/ quasmieh gathering
12th of July: Atfal al salam/ Burj el shemali camp
18th of July: Markaz al amal /Bedawi camp July 22nd: Flying Kites day: 11:00 AM à 2:30 PM
800 children from the 6 camps will gather along with their parents on Jal al Baher Beach, facing Al Janoub supermarket, Tyre. The children will run their properly made Kites on which slogans that revokes violence has been written.
July 1-30: young journalist activity
Diverse groups of young journalists (children from the animation centers) will prepare a set of investigative questions around the topic of the link between love and violence. They will then choose older people as their interviewees, and will gather their answers.
July 15-30: book story building
The interviews gathered by the young journalists will be the starting point for the conception of personal stories based on group drawing and writing techniques. The children/young people will then choose one person to offer him the story he created.
July 1- 30 : wall painting
Groups of children/young people will paint scenes related to their conception of violence camps on a number of walls.
P.S.: October activities (Kermises, Video making and projections) will be communicated later on.
Social Media Exchange is a six-month program to introduce and train members of Lebanon s civil society (organizations and individuals) in social and participatory media on the Internet, both (1) to help organizations and projects improve and streamline their internal organization, management and communications, and (2) to help them more efficiently and effectively achieve their social objectives.
The program will unfold in two phases. The first phase will consist of an introductory seminar on the social web, including social bookmarking, RSS (Really Simple Syndication), and blogging, and how it can be applied in an NGO environment. The second phase will comprise advanced, hands-on workshops in the various technologies as well as mentorship opportunities for select NGO participants.
Introductory seminars will be conducted in various regions of Lebanon, while most of the hands-on workshops will take place in Beirut and several areas in Lebanon.
http://therootspace.org/site/socialmedia...
http://www.socialmediaexchange.blogspot
The project consists of six workshops
In order to download its time schedule, please click Hereا
At the end of each workshop, consulting services will be provided on issues relating to associations management, organization and funding, knowing that these services are set according to what have been tackled within each of these workshops.
The participants :
These workshops concern all the associations and institutions of the Civil Society in general, and the heads, managers, board of directors, current or future chiefs, as well as individuals intending to establish an association on their own. To all who wish to participate in these workshops, have to fill the attached form and submit it to UNDP NGO Unit before July 15th, 2008 (Participation is limited).
In order to download the participation form, please click Here
Date and Time:
Workshops will be organized between July 21st and 29th, 2008. Each session will last for 3 days, from 9.00 a.m. till 2.00 p.m.
In order to download the time schedule, please click href="resources/UNDP_NGOUnit_SummerSchool08_Calendar.pdf">Here
Place:
Holiday Inn Dunes, Verdun
Participation Cost:
The participation cost for each workshop is: $25 or L.P. 37.500
PLACE: THE SUNFLOWER CULTURAL CENTER (DAWAR SHAMS), TAYOUNE ROUND ABOUT, BEIRUT DATE: JULY 12th, 2008 AT 7:00 PM
In the aftermath of the July War 2006, a consortium of 5 NGOs led by Masar Association implemented a developmental and artistic project in the villages of Saddiqine and Zibkine in South of Lebanon. The project included, among many activities, a 4 month drama therapy program targeting women living in these 2 villages.
Any stands for I in the southern Lebanese accent. “Any” the film, follows the women who experienced the very expressive practice of Drama Therapy in the above mentioned project after the July War 2006, in the 2 villages in south Lebanon. The sessions revealed not only the traumas lived by women through the war but more importantly transformed into enhancing women’s decision making capabilities and empowered them to better stand for their rights.
The film, produced in 2007 by Catharsis-Lebanese Center for Drama Therapy, seven months after the end of the drama therapy sessions, and directed by Zeina Daccache, the facilitator on the Drama Therapy sessions in the project, covers scenes from the war, components of the drama therapy sessions and interviews with the concerned population.
Through their creative therapeutic journey, these women reveal kindness, generosity and faith in a better tomorrow... And we are left thinking of the notions of hope and resistance through sufferance.
In Order to download the Invitation please click here
Following the 2006 conflict between Israel and Lebanon, HI deployed Battlefield Area Clearance teams in South Lebanon, in order to reduce the risk caused by scattered unexploded ordnance (UXO) and release the land back to the most affected and vulnerable communities around Tyre, southern Lebanon.
The report provides narrative and statistical data demonstrating the humanitarian impact of Handicap International’s Battlefield Area Clearance efforts in South Lebanon during the first 12 months of operations (December 2006 to December 2007). The clearance had a wide social, psychological and economic benefit which Handicap International documented through post clearance data gathering and collection of personal stories
Follow-up Committee for the Support of Lebanese Detainees in Israeli Prisons&Khiam Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torturehave the pleasure
to invite you to attend the press conference convened by the Secretary General of the Commission and the Center, Mohamed Safa, talking about the exchange process and the issue of Lebanese, Arab detainees and missing persons as well as the Commission s role in the process of liberation of detainees
Time: Friday July 4, 2008 at 11:00 a.m.
Place: KRC s Main Office - Kornich Al Mazraa - Behind Gallery Chour - Zreik Center - 3rd Floor
The referral system aims to support professionals (social workers, animators, educators, UNRWA teachers councilors) working with children and adolescents to identify children within their centers (kinder gardens, animation centers, UNRWA schools....) who need to be referred to psychosocial activities, psychotherapeutic group mediations or individual therapy (with a psychologist or any other specialist).
The referral system aims to:
- Give tools to professionals working with children and adolescents for the identification of children who need psychological care.
- Advise professionals on how to communicate with parents about their children’s difficulties
- Facilitate the communication and the experience sharing between professionals from different centers, NGOs, backgrounds about children’s psychological difficulties and behavioral problems
- Assist professionals to create an action plan to deal with children with behavioral problems in their centers
Methodology:
- Regular monthly meetings between an external psychologist and childhood professionals (social workers, animators, educators, UNRWA teacher councilors from different animation centers and kinder gardens). Each meeting consists of 3 to 6 participants.
- During these meetings each social worker details the case of one or two particular children who seem to have behavioral problems or psychological difficulties.
- The psychologist then supports the social worker and guides him/her to gather information about the child and to understand better the psychological situation of the child.
- The other social workers have the opportunity to share experiences on similar cases.
- Participants and the psychologist try to:
o Find solutions together for each child
o Set an action plan for the child in the center
o Decide to refer the child to a psychologist in the camp or in the region
o Discuss about how to talk with parents about this need for the child to have psychological follow-up.
- Monthly workshops are also held for childhood professionals to discuss and be more informed about specific topics.
For more information on the referral system, please contact us on: Ghassan.a.chaar@gmail.com or on 70/979 181
In the World Refugee Day on June 20, we stand and with us all the honorable and jurists in Lebanon ashamed in front of our fellow human beings who have been forced by the circumstances to resort to our country, which did not provide them -and still- with humanitarian conditions that they deserve, according to international covenants and the Bill of Rights starting from the Palestinians to Iraqis and Sudanese
For More Information Please Clickhere
The newly formed Social Media Exchange has launched a series of seminars on using social media for positive social change. The seminars are being hosted in collaboration with the new Beirut–based incubator for social entrepreneurship, RootSpace.
Social media, also known as Web 2.0, refers to a new set of Internet tools that make it easy for users not only to consume content but also to produce and share it in strategic ways. Our trainers will cover the basics of social media and some of its best applications in an NGO environment.
Seminars will be held from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on July 3, 8, and 15 at UNESCO palace in Beirut (seminars will also be given elsewhere in Lebanon; call for more information). Lunch will be provided. To register for this free seminar or to get more information about the workshops, the Social Media Exchange, and RootSpace, please call 03-792-505 (English and Arabic) or send email to mohamad@therootspace.org.
In order to download this document please click here
the Shelter Database Package Contains the Following:
- Consolidation of Safety & Damage Assessment Conducted in September by UNRWA and K&A
- Consolidation of NGO notes with K&A Safety and Damage Assessment (Sector A - NBC ADJ AREA)
- Consolidation of NGO notes with K&A Safety and Damage Assessment (Sector B - NBC ADJ AREA)
- Consolidation of NGO notes with K&A Safety and Damage Assessment (Sector C - NBC ADJ AREA)
- Consolidation of NGO notes with K&A Safety and Damage Assessment (Sector D - NBC ADJ AREA)
- Consolidation of NGO notes with K&A Safety and Damage Assessment (Sector E - NBC ADJ AREA)
- Consolidation of Housing Units in NBC with their current Residents details (Reg Number, Number of Family Members)
- Consolidation of Shelter Interventions (NRC, PU, ACTED) (In Quantities) for the NBC Adjacent Area
In Order to download the full package please click here
The consolidation reports was conducted by Lebanon Support in the aim of identifying any possible gaps in information
In commemoration of the World Refugee Day
Save the Children/ Sweeden
Invites you to attend the exhibition of NBC and Beddawi children’s photos
Entitled “Two camps in One”
A joint exhibition with El Jana Center entitled “Our homeland though near but far to reach”: two exhibitions in one and two camps in one.
Location: El Madina Theater – Hamra street - Beirut
Opening day: Sunday, June 22nd, 2008, at 6:30 p.m.
The exhibition will be for one week and will open its doors for public everyday from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m.
It is to be noted that the present project is supported by ECHO.
The "Capacity Building for Poverty Reduction Project", a joint project between the Ministry of Social Affairs and the United Nations Development Programme" is pleased to present seven issues of the series of statistical fact sheets.
These statistical fact sheets aim to highlight some indicators related to characteristics of households and residents at the national and governates levels in Lebanon. Data included in fact sheets are derived from the National Survey of Households Living Conditions (The Multipurpose Survey, 2004/2005). It should be noted that the multipurpose survey is a joint effort among the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Central Administration for Statistics and the United Nations Development Programme.
The film festival is an innovative and pioneering way to pursue the goal by promoting human rights through the art of filming. The Institute of Diplomacy and Conflict Transformation, School of Arts and Sciences at the Lebanese American University in Byblos in partnership with the United Nations Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, ME Beirut office (OHCHR), World Vision Lebanon, and the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands are organizing the 1st edition of the Beirut Human Rights Film Festival. The event gives university students from Lebanon the opportunity to participate in a contest by submitting their short films by June 17. Students can choose to shed light on human rights abuse as a cause of violent conflict, youth responding to human rights violations, children s rights, or gender and human rights. The principle objective of the festival is to empower youth, stimulate positive changes and responses to human rights violations through the film and supportive activities. The prizes range from $3,000 for the first place to $1,000 for the third. Selected films will be screened during a festival on October 27–31. An awareness campaign will follow with the distribution of these films, along with other educational resources, to schools, universities and other organizations. In the year 2008 the festival has national coverage and Lebanon is considered as pilot project. In 2009 and the following years other countries in the Middle East will be invited to participate.
Jeudi 19 2008, a partir de 18h
Villa Audi, pres De Le Sofil, Achrafieh
L expostion se poursuivra jusqu au 3 Juillet 2008, de 10h a 17h
L exposition est nee de la campagne "1000 femmes pour le prix Nobel de la paix 2005", qui avait pour object d honorer la contribution de la femme a la promotion de la paix. Elle presente le portrait de 1000 femmes exceptionelles, de toutes origines sociales, ethniques ou religieuse
Pour plus d informations, contactez le :
03/614 355 -rkobeissi@terra.net.lb
On the occasion of World Refugee Day United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Lebanon in collaboration with its partners MECC, CARITAS, NRC, MDM, AJEM, IMC, Amel Association, Arc en Ciel, IECD, Insan, Al Majmouaa, & Restart Cordially invites you to attend The World Refugee Day Official Ceremony including An Exhibition of Handcrafts and Paintings by Refugees & Drawings by Refugee Children Under the theme "Protection"
Place: Babel Theater, Marinian Center, Hamra, Beirut, Lebanon
Date: Thursday 19 June 2008, From 4:00 pm. – 7:00 pm.
Outdoor activities with refugees will be held on Saturday 21 June, 2008 at 3:00 pm. at College Notre Dame – Jamhour
Khiam Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture
is pleased to invite you to attend the press conference that is going to launch the 26 June campaign –
the United Nations International Day in Suport of Victims of Torture under the title of:
" Sectarianism is Torture "
Time: Thursday 12- 6- 2008, 11 :00 a.m.
Place: Lebanese Press Union – Rawshe, Beirut
Furthermore, Saint-Sauveur informs you that the registration procedures of the academic year 2008-2009 have started
In all its departments: boarding, day, ecclesiastic and social care.
And in four languages: Arabic, French, English and Italian.
With the provision of financial assistance, free of charge transportation for youngsters and a special educational program.
Respect for the International Humanitarian Law, essential in building peace
Vulnerability and marginalization: the situation of Iraqi refugees in Jordan
New homes ready for over 100 Nahr al-Bared families
Urgent appeal from Palestinian Medical Relief Society PMRS) in Gaza
Interview – Jamal Rozzi, Palestinian Medical Relief Society in Gaza Strip - “The context of permanent violence is destroying people in Gaza”
Social empowerment, our development driving force in the Middle East
Being young, disabled refugee women in Lebanon
Medical care, a luxury for Iraqi refugees in Jordan
Palestine commemorates the Nakba ( the "catastrophe")
The Lebanese Transparency Association (LTA) and the Civil Campaign for Electoral Reform (CCER) will have a stand in the framework of the Vivicitta Run for Peace Marathon of Beirut, on Sunday June 1, 2008 in Gemmayzeh, facing Ahwet el Ezzez (Café Gouraud) as well as a tent on the finish line; next to Audi Bank Starco, starting 7am.
Prior to the Marathon, LTA will holding a promotional stand at the Madina Riyyadieh (next to BHV Jnah) from the 29th to the 31st, starting 11am to 6pm.
Be numerous to pass by our stands, get copies of our publications, promotional material, and sign LTA’s Post-War Reconstruction Petition.
We, who get nothing from their "parties" but more impoverishment and oppression, must cluster in collaboration with civil society bodies to make a popular campaign for the restoration of national and social cohesion between citizens and hold meetings in every street and region in rejection of war, violence, sedition and sectarianism. We must enroll into a national campaign against sectarianism and its lords; otherwise, May incidents will be repeated in all the months ahead because, and even if it stopped among the officials who invited it and prepared for, its fire will be still raging in the souls. To Read This Article Please Click
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http://www.khiamcenter.org/KrcStatRecentMay2008En.html
The Movimiento por la Paz - MPDL, in partnership with Naba a and in collaboration with URD (Urgence Rehabilitation Développement), organize five training days on Project Cycle Management for humanitarian workers implementing projects in North Lebanon
The training will take place in Beirut from the 2 to the 6 of June. Between the 20 participants of this training they will be members of different nongovernmental organizations like Naba a, GUPW; PARD; Right to Play, Lebanon Support, CBR, Ghassan Kanafani and Caritas Lebanon, as well as personal from MPDL in Lebanon and staff of the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department-ECHO Beirut.
There are two objectives for this training, on the one hand, to offer technical tools on the project cycle management that will contribute to the improvement of the quality in the management of the projects in which the trainees are involved at the moment, as well as the development of future projects. On the other hand, to enhance the process of qualification and empowerment of the local organizations with the aim to reinforce its humanitarian intervention in support to the population affected by the crisis in North Lebanon.
This activity is possible thanks to the two trainers from the French organisation Urgence Réhabilitation Développement - URD, created in 1993 which has as main goal the investigation, evaluation and production of methodologies applied to the humanitarian action, with the purpose of improving the practices of the NGOs in favor to the affected population.
This training is developed within the framework of one of the projects that MPDL is currently implementing in North Lebanon in partnership with Naba a, “Shelter rehabilitation for Palestinian IDPs from Nahr the Bared Refugee Camp living in Beddawi Refugee Camp and gatherings, Northern Lebanon” funded by the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department – ECHO.
Title of project: “Improved overall situation for Palestinian refugees with disabilities affected by the Naher el Bared crisis in Lebanon”.
Donor: European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO)
Implementing partner: Community Based Rehabilitation Association.
Direct beneficiaries:
300 People with disabilities affected by the NBC conflict living in refugee camps of NBC and BC.
Objective: Improve the independence and mobility of People with Disability in their homes through a community based approach.
Main activities: Needs assessment of all the people with disability originally from NBC (575 p). Home adaptation of 150 houses. Provision of technical aids and orthopedic assessment and advise.
Results:
R1. 150 vulnerable Palestinian refugees with disabilities directly affected by NBC crisis improve their living conditions and their independence within their houses and community through home adaptation.
R2. 150 vulnerable Palestinian refugees with disabilities affected by the NBC crisis improve their daily life activities and increase their independence through the provision of technical aids and orthopedic assessment and advice.
The Palestinian Child Development and Entertainment Center has organized a entertaining trip for a group of 20 children in the framework of the positive entertaining program.
According to the center, the afore mentioned trip is their fourth. Their destination was Toulkarem where the children visited a number of popular and tourist sites, before they headed to Mija Land and Oasis Park.
In this context, the Chairman of the Center, Mouhanna Naim Najem thanked all the stakeholders who supported their activities and projects which aim at protecting and developing the Palestinian childhood.
Khiam Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture invites you to participate in the balloons launch and roses distribution in rejection of the war and sectarianism under the title:
Corniche is not for barricades, and an apology and punishment of perpetrators are required
Time: Tue. 27/05/2008 at 11:00 a.m.
Place: Cornich El Mazraa - facing Gallery Chour
To launch balloons of love on each others and to fight the ideological differences together To Read This Invitation Plz Click Here "
http://www.khiamcenter.org/KrcKornicheMay2008En.html
New wave of violence that reaped about 300 dead and injured as well as massive damage to properties, shops, cars and houses, during which serious human rights violations were committed and was represented by the renewal of kidnappings according to one s identity and terrorizing citizens in all areas by firing bullets and bomb, killing many civilians with reckless bullets, preventing the movement of citizens due to cut roads and closure of the airport, muzzling the media group of the Future Movement and the burning of some, destroying some of the social and educational institutions, sacrilege and abuse of religious institutions, the infringement on houses of some deputies from the opposition and the government supporters, as well as many other ignominious practices that paid its price the citizens staying at their homes in Beirut, the north, the Bekaa and the mountains, but the most dangerous in this new bloody chapter of the Lebanese crisis is the loose of the sectarian impulses and the fighting between the burghers of the same town, and sometimes of the same building and the same street, which threatens into a serious sectarian classification that was not witnessed during the civil war in 1975 To Read This Report Please Click "
http://www.khiamcenter.org/KrcMayWar2008EnReport.html"
Development Action Without Borders - Naba a In Partner Ship With MPDL And Supported With AECI Invites You To Attend : The Graduation Party Of The Students In Vocational Opportunities And Empowerment Of Females Project (first Cycle)
Date : Tuesday , 6 May 2008 At 3:00 PM
Place : Maarouf Saad Cultural Center , Saida
For confimation please contact Hiba Hamzi within two days, at 07/732601 or 03/488785 or via email (h.hamzi@nabaa-lb.org).
In The Occasion Of The INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST
CLUSTER MUNITIONS, HANDICAP INTERNATIONAL MINES
BAC PROJECT SOUTH LEBANON has the pleasure to invite to its event .
This publication is the result of the educational and cultural project “Support for the Renovation of the Social, Educational and Cultural Services in the Areas Affected by the Conflict of 2006”, realized by the Italian NGO Un Ponte per…(UPP) in cooperation with its local partner, Aid Lebanon and ARCPA/Al Jana, funded by the Italian Cooperation/ROSS Emergency Program.
The project aimed to improve the cultural and social services in South Lebanon, in particular in two cultural centers, in the village of Deir Kanoun el Nahar and Houla: this book contains the result of one of the activities (art workshop for children) realized during the year 2007/2008.
With this publication, Un ponte per… wants to put in the picture the consequences of war on civil population. This was done starting from the personal experiences of young Lebanese people who found, through an artistic and educational path, a way to speak about themselves and about the war, subject always present.
We hope that this publication can also be a support for the many educational activities realized in Italian schools, in the framework of project of peace education and intercultural promotion.
The public presentation of the book will take place on:
11 April 2008: Houla Cultural Center, 16 p.m.
12 April 2008: Deir Kanoun el Nahar Cultural Center, 15 p.m.
For information:
Giulia Rivoli, Un Ponte per...: 70 933850
Kiki Bokassa: 03 466764
