Name: Noelie Fenianos

Title: L’etoile du Nord Nursery and pre-school Director

‘’Libérez le potentiel de l’enfant et vous transformerez le monde avec lui’’ MM

A l’Etoile du Nord, on se met tous en œuvre pour aider les enfants à vivre, à s’épanouir et à réaliser leur potentiel, dès la petite enfance.

Notre mission est d’aider les enfants à faire face aux nouveaux défis d’un monde en mutation. Mettre en place les conditions pour qu’ils puissent exercer leurs droits au sein d’un groupe organisé démocratiquement et les accompagner dans leur apprentissage d’une autonomie sociale individuelle et collective.

Chez nous, chaque enfant doit pouvoir exercer des libertés, donner son avis et participer aux décisions qui le concernent, en fonction d’évolution de ses capacités.

Notre rôle n’est pas de désirer quelque chose pour quelqu’un, mais d’être celui grâce à lui il peut advenir à son désir.

Name: Najib Yazbeck

Title: Project Coordinator

Project name: Emergency assistance with Water, Sanitation, and Education for Syrians refugees and affected populations in North Lebanon 

At the Rene Moawad Foundation, we believe that every child has the right to learn and be engaged in educational activities regardless of his age, gender and nationality.

Our aim is to secure a child friendly environment, where children can reach education without being at risk of any kind, such as violence, abuse, neglect or exploitation.

Therefore, trainings on Child Safeguarding Policy, Child Protection, and Safe Identification and Referral were delivered to our education front-liners (teachers of BLN, YBLN and FLG).

Those training enhanced the abilities of our teachers to create a safe and effective learning platform, where children can reach their right to education through online courses in Math, Arabic, French and English languages.

Through these activities, we provide the right of education for neglected and working children, in formal and non-formal education programs.

Name: Julie Khoury

Title: Project Manager

Porject name: Empowering children in North Lebanon funded by UNICEF 

يقع العديد من الأطفال في شمال لبنان ضحايا الإهمال وسوء المعاملة والاستغلال. ولكن يختلف الوضع بين منطقة وأخرى حيث يقطن غالبيتهم في مجتمعات مهمّشة، ضغيفة، وفقيرة يكونوا فيها أكثر عرضة للاستغلال وسوء المعاملة والحرمان.

من هنا فإنّ مشروع “حماية وتمكين الأطفال وعائلاتهم في شمال لبنان” المموّل من اليونيسف والمنفذ من مؤسسة رينه معوض يركّز على الحماية من العنف والإهمال وسوء المعاملة وعلى خلق بيئة وقائية من خلال معالجة بعض الأسباب الرئيسية لانتهاك حقوق الأطفال ومنع المخاطر وتخفيفها.

للمشروع مسارين أساسيين: حمائي وتدخلي. وتكون طريقة التدخل متكاملة ومترابطة تبدأ بإدارة الحالات من قبل أخصائيين اجتماعيين، إلى أنشطة نفسية اجتماعية مركّزة للأطفال المعرّضين للخطر والتي تتألّف من 12 جلسة، إلى جانب أنشطة دعم نفسية اجتماعية تهدف إلى تعزيز الروابط والتفاعلات الاجتماعية وتعزيز الشعور بالكفاءة، وصولاً إلى التربية الإيجابية ومبادرات اجتماعية التي صمّمت لتوفير المعلومات العلمية الإيجابيّة لمقدّمي الرعاية وتعزيز علاقات الأقران القوية.

Name: Khouloud Al Ali

Title: Director of RMF Center for Education and Protection Services – Tebbaneh- Tripoli

Since its establishment in 2000, this center created hope to the kids residing in Tebbeneh area, where they are at high risk of school drop out and more violence. The services provided to the kids, their families and the community include awareness, buidling capacities, positive parenting sessions, and others.

This center has worked through all its projects to promote child rights in an area where violations against children are frequent (work, child marriage, discrimination…). The center contributed to promoting the child’s right to education and protection from work, through targeting children at risk of dropping out of schools (school support program) or working children (BLN classes), in addition to preserving the child’s right to entertainment in a safe environment through various activities (sports, handicrafts, brake dance…).

For the protection of children, life skills programs, PSS and FPSS programs have contributed to raising children’s awareness on how to protect themselves and being active members of the society.

Over the years, so many success stories in the center marked our mission. A eight-year-old child who fled the war in Syria to Lebanon couldn’t be enrolled in a school. He likes a lot the center and is grateful for the team because he learned to read and write his name. His words motivated us the most to continue our mission and work.