Our work helping Syrian refugees and the host community in North Lebanon

Find out how we're helping children like Amar, one of the thousands of Syrian children who have fled the violence in Syria and are seeking safety across the border.

Save the Children support includes:

• Remedial classes to 500 children in collaboration with three local NGOs based in the North.
• 700 children (80% Syrian, 20% Lebanese) are enrolled in six different public schools in Wadi Khaled and take part in psychosocial and recreational activities organized by social workers. Such activities are carried out in schools, shelters and the two NGO centres.
• Case management and daily follow-up by 4 social workers on the integration of Syrian children and their performance within the Lebanese educational system
• Awareness-raising sessions targeting parents and children on Child Rights in general, and the Right to Education in particular. The main purpose of these sessions is to encourage parents to send their children to school.
• Five child friendly spaces (CFS) were created by Save the Children as a result of a partnership with UNICEF in order to give the opportunity for children to play and have access to a safe space, to manage tension and prevent aggression or bullying, and to keep their minds off the harsh reality they are facing. Three CFSs are located in three public schools while the other two are held in centres used as shelters by refugee families. Both centres were not equipped to receive such a large number of displaced families and lack necessary sanitation and hygiene facilities. However, international organizations as well as other local institutions and the Government worked on improving their conditions.
• The CFSs target 700 children with the majority being Syrian and the rest Lebanese, from the host community.

Through the Child Friendly Spaces, Save the Children provides:

• Capacity building for teachers, educators and community workers on learning difficulties, CRC, child protection, positive discipline and psychosocial activities
• Equipment for the CFSs including: interactive and occupational games, learning tools, handicrafts and other participatory activities in relation to Child Rights and Child Participation
• Recruitment of animators and outreach workers to organize activities with children
• Save the Children intends to cover a larger number of children through remedial classes and create more child friendly spaces in the North with a possibility to expand to Tripoli and the Bekaa with the deteriorating situation in Syria.

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