Beirut-Badaro
Beirut
Liban
- Democracy and community development
- Human rights
- Media
- Youth and education
Dawaer's mission is to prevent the spread of extremism among youth and children in Lebanon and the Middle East through producing and disseminating alternative narratives and empowering youth and children to become responsible global citizens and mobilizing their critical thinking to counter radicalization. Our objectives are: - Youth are empowered to critically respond to extremist narratives - A network of teachers is formed whereby they are empowered to respond to behavioural and extremism challenges among their students and exchange experience at the national level - Raise the awareness and develop the skills of schools on detecting extremism among their students, adopting preventive measures and empowering young people to become more resilient to extremism. - Enhancing media literacy in schools to prevent extremism - Empowering parents to detect and respond to signs of radicalisation among their children - Enhance community social cohesion and resilience against extremism
Dawaer has started training the Ministry of Social Affairs staff in Lebanon, who are in direct contact with children and youth, on implementing interactive activities that enhance human right concepts and values and self-expression and achieve a change on the attitude level.
Furthermore, Dawaer has trained social workers and “Teach for Lebanon” staff on implementing interactive human right activities for children aged between 9-12 years to enhance their self-expression and resilience. The activities were further disseminated to over 200 Syrian refugee children in the area of Bar Elias.
Dawaer has further worked with Syrian Refugee children in Burj Al Barajneh camp to raise their awareness on human rights, respect for diversity and protection and build their resilience against human right violations.
Dawaer can network with existing partners to conduct complementary projects that would enhance the impact of the work done. By partnering and cooperating with civil society organizations, we believe we can multiply the impact of our efforts into different aspects and several areas.
Dawaer believes that being part of the ALF network will facilitate sharing information among NGOs of silimar or complimentary missions, offer support and guidance, have access to more resources and provide a sense of belonging to us and achieve a greater impact on the national level.