Empowerment is the process of gaining enough control and confidence that urge make social and economic changes within the community
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Youths in Lebanon encounter numerous challenges associated to the economic, political and social impediment to their integration within their community.
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The coordinator of the New Beam of Life project, Nurse Huda Al Zabouti, held an awareness session about congenital birth defects in newborns and the importance of taking folic acid during pregnancy for pregnant women benefiting within the project.
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Personal hygiene is essential for the physical and psychological well-being of our children. Therefore, the psychological specialist Fatima Bkaaie provided an awareness session to introduce children to the importance of personal hygiene and explain how to maintain a healthy body free from diseases and germs
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A special activity was carried out in the Violet home for the girls of the house, where a lesson was organized about healthy and unhealthy eating. This activity included making a delicious dish of fattoush, which is considered a healthy and nutritious option at the same time. The girls were introduced to the basic ingredients of fattoush, which include cucumber, tomato, parsley, mint, onion, lemon and olive oil. They prepared and prepared the ingredients, while receiving valuable information about their nutritional value and health benefits. After that, the girls began to prepare the plate of fattoush themselves, as each one skillfully cut the vegetables and arranged them beautifully in the plate. Also, learn how to make a delicious lemon and olive oil sauce that adds an amazing taste to fattoush. After work, the girls enjoyed tasting the delicious fattoush dish that they prepared themselves. There is no doubt that this fun activity contributed to increasing their awareness of the importance of healthy eating and its positive impact on health. The implementation of the healthy and unhealthy eating lesson and the preparation of the fattoush dish is an important step towards enhancing nutritional skills and proper nutrition among the girls of the Purple House, and contributed to encouraging them to make healthy food choices in their daily lives.
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There is an urgent need in the first place to show your opinion, to stand among a group of your people and influence them and they influence you, then you will find a way, know it, and pursue it. All this is an indispensable benefit in order for the judgment to be upright, and lest you make a tyrant over you, and you will end up disliking something. The firm human right to participate in political life is an instinct in the individual and the group whose goal is to make society equal and correct. The viewer alone is to look with his one eye without taking into account the opinions and perceptions of others, he is without creativity and intelligence, and to his immediate desire is closer than his need to refine and preserve his humanity. There is no doubt or dispute that the leadership or management or whatever its name is the system based on the order of the group, it is in its opinion, assessment, management and treatment of issues, capable of achieving and meeting the needs of the individual and the group of food, housing, security, dignity and others, also capable of tyranny and deny rights. And when a person renounces a right, it is as if he renounces his rights all at once. What about the oppressed refugee who does not know where the helm is? Of course, asylum and the complex factional situation does not justify the reluctance of the Palestinian society from its right. The political situation in Lebanon in its general image is also not a justification. Let us suppose that the factions are like them in a special case, but in some way, they have given them a head that represents us, that is, that represents the summary of what we want, and represents the summary of what we see. Our voice, our expressions and our dialect, so how can this political and administrative representation achieve the desired of it if our voice and our opinion did not reach it! There is no legitimacy for a voice that emanates from the people and is independent of them, and on the other hand, the voice of those who whispered or shouted in the midst of chaos does not reach. It is not difficult for a single group to gather and define its priorities and demands, even if its origin and branch differed, it has been placed today in one trench. The refugee people should appreciate the course of things, and realize that the main reason for the widening of their plight is that they stood by and watched in the face of successive crises, and that the consequences of their fear that silenced them made things worse. Know first and foremost that loudspeakers are not restricted by anyone, and there is no need for you to understand politics in order to participate in it. It is a definite legal right to demand your proper representation and to form a group under the name you desire, to ask a referendum, to hold a sit-in, to disobey, and to say in a clear and frank voice That a human being is in my group and we need this or we do not want this. This is a right related to being a human being in the first place, not to being a citizen of your country. International laws guarantee without discrimination the right to self- determination, as there is no legitimacy for some individuals to decide the fate of the group without referring to it.
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It is not a secret to anyone how the drowned clings to a straw, and from behind the edges, hands with mighty capabilities and amazing generosity stand, throwing a straw to each drowned person. And I do not think we disagree that straw is a distraction from fear that neither saves nor enriches. So how did our armed organizations make the right to work and collect money that guarantees the preservation of human dignity and his need for life as a distraction that does not save? Let's first look at the UNRWA innovation in 'money for work' and take a peek at the hole it has made. The innovation says that a different number of young men and women in the process of their production will be periodically selected and pushed into the labor market, and they will be distributed according to their specializations or choices previously, in a questionnaire to work A period of time of approximately sixty days, and the financial equivalent is 'mere', but it is interrupted. What is the point of the innovation of UNRWA and other organizations that are concerned with employing the largest possible number of young people and getting rid of them quickly? This creates instability in money, livelihood and social life, and it does not even give enough time to gain the required experience in any job market. Our organizations are not far from it, but here blood may shed with sweat. The situation with the ongoing economic crisis in Lebanon and the collapse of the lira has become more complex. The number of young people at the entrances and alleys of the camps is suspiciously increasing, and two things are clear that military uniforms cannot conceal from them, and they are small the age of the militants, and their inability to bear arms, neither awareness nor jurisprudence in it. Far from the obvious estimation, that we are a people with a warlike tendency as a result of their circumstances and experiences, and that fire escalates into fire, so it is inevitable. Why do our organizations need this number of armed men in their orbits? The goal of the young man among them is to secure his strength and provide for his family, so he seeks a job in which he does not understand and does not know its purpose, nothing with a few dollars brings him except more chances of death, and his soul is filled with bullets. In summary, for all of the above, it seems clear that the person responsible for the Palestinian affairs in the diaspora has dramatically aborted his right to work, and they have convinced him that it is an alternative and indispensable solution.
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rights and reality "There is confusion between the refusal to settle the Palestinians in Lebanon and the deprivation of their most basic civil, social and cultural rights.. Lebanon is considered one of the countries that ratified most of the provisions of the Casablanca Protocol in 1965, when the resolution stipulated the need to treat Palestinians in the Arab countries in which they reside as the treatment of the original people. In terms of their rights of residency and work..but the situation on the ground is completely different..the Palestinian is still treated as a foreigner, his rights are limited and he does not get the rights stated in international charters in terms of ownership..we cannot forget that Lebanon started an introduction its constitution with a text expressing respect for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights law..." The wonder of the awakening of the Minister, "Kamil Abu Suleiman", on the eligibility of the Lebanese labor force to work inside Lebanon like the rest of the workforce... to issue his decision in the name of the "Foreign Labor Plan in Lebanon", while the ministers before him left the matter as an exception!! Anyway, in Lebanon, you have to get used to everything that is strange and strange. Unprecedented vision! The minister finds that what he is doing is right, and it is a legal procedure that takes its course, and by this he may draw attention to the fact that he is working to modify and change the reality that a period of time has passed and has not changed, while the Lebanese people are waiting for change and renewal, as the other is tired of repetition and problems. political affairs, and everything is heading for the worse.. The minister's enthusiasm was initially focused on developing a legal plan in his view; It works to preserve the right of the Lebanese to work unchallenged and without competition! While the ministers before him did not pay attention to rights, guarantees, entitlement and eligibility... they were oblivious and he was alone on his watch. But, Mr. Minister, he did not notice that his state has banned nearly seventy professions for the Palestinian, so how can he obtain a work permit that is basically prohibited!!? And did he consider the existence of a Palestinian-Lebanese dialogue committee affiliated to the Council of Ministers? Is it the right of his decision to bypass this committee? !! Indeed The Palestinian worker is exposed to great challenges in the Lebanese labor market. If he manages to get a job, the first thing that collides with him is the mood of the employer in terms of deprivation, devaluation, and the low wages he gives in exchange for heavy work... Not to mention the unfair conditions, harsh assignments, and abusive treatment, in addition to being in a state of unfair dismissal at any moment. There is no legal cover to protect it. There is no difference between a freelance worker and a certificate holder.. The Palestinian engineer who implements the project with a continuous effort in terms of follow-up, auditing and implementation, despite all these efforts, these efforts are placed in the name of the Lebanese engineer who assigned the Palestinian to his job. If we go to the Palestinian doctors who have passed the Coloquium exam, we find that they can only work in relief institutions and the Palestinian Red Crescent hospitals, not to mention that the medical reports issued by Palestinian doctors are not recognized by the Lebanese state until they are signed by a Lebanese doctor. I will not talk about the buildings that fall day after day while they are under the supervision of a Lebanese engineer.. and I will not address the suffering of the Lebanese from the medical field in Lebanon in terms of efficiency, costs and fatal medical errors, and their flight to Syria to extract a tooth or perform an appendix operation, which is the simplest operation that the Lebanese fear to perform in Lebanon . It is necessary to look at matters closely and examine the reality.. Then it is possible to report and talk about rights and preferences. The employment of the Palestinian is not a robbery of the right of the Lebanese worker, and it is not considered a competition, as it is said.. (Give the baker his bread even if he eats half of it).. For every interest of the people and the Lebanese citizen can rule. I do not underestimate the Lebanese in my stories, but I will address one of the categories to which the Lebanese himself testifies. Every nation is good and bad, knowledgeable and ignorant... Every person has his own livelihood and he does not take from the livelihood of others except what is destined for him.
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Aisha Barhoum, a student in the Purple House project, confirmed that she learned from the leadership and advocacy course how to defend herself, make the right decisions and distinguish between right and wrong. She also learned to choose the steps that concern her life and reject what might harm her at this age. She added that she seeks to achieve her dreams and goals as a girl at this age, and does not give up. Regarding her experience in the Purple House project, Aisha said that it helped her learn to read and write and acquire new and useful information, and encouraged her to work on her goals and express her thoughts and feelings. She indicated that the educational and psychological sessions that were organized in the project helped her get rid of negative feelings and overcome them, which made her feel happy because of the various recreational activities.
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The student, Nour Abdel Qader, stated that she was able to learn to read and write, expand her social network, and was able to distinguish between right and wrong. She indicated that these experiences gave her self-confidence and enabled her to defend herself and make appropriate decisions. These acquired skills are attributed to the Purple House project in which I participated. In addition, Nour was able to gain new and useful information and improve her mental health through the awareness sessions and psychological sessions that were implemented within the framework of the project. Nour indicated that these diverse and entertaining experiences made her feel happy and satisfied with the project's activities.
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To know how the New Beam of Life project helped the pregnant women and mothers we asked them about the services and their answers were as follows: “This project helped us a lot as the fees paid to the doctors are very simple compared to the medical fees paid in other hospitals, also the presence of the hospital inside the camp helped us a lot, as this doesn’t cost us extra fees (Transportation Fees). The Awareness sessions and the posters on the social media are of Great importance as they give us information which help us during pregnancy” “I can visit the doctor every month to make sure that my fetus is in a good health and this would be impossible to me without the help of the project services. If I want to visit a gynecologist outside the framework of the project, I will not be able to pay the fees because the prices for external examinations have become very high, and paying these amounts has become impossible in light of the difficult economic conditions we are passing through.” “This project was of a great importance to me as it helped me a lot before and after delivery especially by helping me in the milk needed for my baby as I find a lot of difficulties in getting it”. “I can take my daughter who was born within the project when she became sick to the doctor in the hospital benefiting from the card issued from the association. The low cost that I pay for consultation helps me by being able to pay for the medications that my daughter needs especially in the bad economic situations we are passing through”.
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The project aimed at increasing positive civic values, decreasing negative civic values, and enhancing social cohesion.
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It is a youth project that works to enhance the capabilities of young people in terms of human rights related to refugees
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Project of reducing the vulnerability of refugee girls and adolescent in Lebanon
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In this project, cooked meals are prepared and distributed to needy displaced people and refugees
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Palestinian artists Osama Atwa and Waseem Khair travel to Lebanon for an artistic tour in the refugee camps in Beirut. They both arrive in Lebanon despite the Israeli authority’s prohibition from travelling there. The tour of three weeks was enough for them to find themselves in a place that resembles them, and which triggered many questions, confusion and contradictions. Lebanese land quickly becomes home for them. After finishing the tour they go back to Palestine, and a new journey begins.
Within the alternative school project funded by Sardegna Palestina, Nawaat announces the start of school dropout registration.
Within the alternative school project funded by Sardegna Palestina, the Nawaat Association announces the start of registration for academic support classes.
Within the alternative school project funded by Sardegna Palestina, the Nawaat Association announces the start of registration for academic support classes.
