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Tuesday 9 December 2014
Save the Children’s Beirut field office has opened its third and final youth center on Thursday the 30th of October in Dekwane, under the Japan Platform (JPF) fund. The project is being implemented in six communities: three in Bekaa, and three in Beirut.
The centers target adolescents and youth aged between 14 and 24 from both refugee and host communities. The aim of the project is to strengthen relationships between Lebanese youth and Syrian, Palestinian and Iraqi refugee adolescents.
Monday 1 December 2014
Lebanon has already witnessed two storms in the beginning of winter 2014. Storm Misha greeted the country with massive bolts of lightning and a rapid decrease in temperature, followed by storm Nancy’s heavy rain that fell across the country and snowfall that covered high altitude areas.
Friday 28 November 2014
One Drop at a Time: Save the Children Lebanon’s national advocacy campaign to encourage water conservation.
If you’ve visited Lebanon this past summer (2014), there’s a big chance you’ve noticed the abundance of water trucks parked outside buildings, filling up one of the growing number of water tanks that have run dry.
Thursday 27 November 2014
Children count for a disproportionate number of those affected by the crisis in Syria. To date, more than 40 per cent of all Syrian refugee children have fled to Lebanon; a quarter of whom are under the age of four. For many, their life experiences form a terrible mosaic of instability, poverty, loss and distress.
Wednesday 19 November 2014
This November 20th marks 25 years since the world made a set of promises to all children when it adopted the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The CRC acknowledged all children as rights holders and inspired the move towards child advocacy, bringing positive change in the lives of many. Although today’s children are far more likely to survive and prosper than they would have 25 years ago, many are being marginalized and left behind.
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