Escalating progress on “Education and Life Skills education for Syrian refugees and Lebanese adolescent” project continues as 240 Lebanese youth in 12 youth clubs are undergoing a series of 3 Peace building and Conflict resolution trainings per week across LOSTs premises all over Baalbeck-Hermel province. Furthermore around 620 Syrian youth are simultaneously undergoing a series of 3 Basic Life skills training sessions per week in various ISs and public locations across Northern Bekaa.
Developing a sense of empathy with the Syrian community, the youth clubs created in the project started conducting a series of activities and correlations with their Syrian peers thus presenting a positive model of interaction with the comers. Since the Lebanese Ministry of Education asks secondary class students aged 14 to 18 to acquire a sum of 60 hours of volunteerism in order to get their Baccalaureate certificate, such training represent a great incentive for these them to take part. Moreover, their role in transferring the knowledge of non-violent communication and Tolerance they have acquired to the Syrian community in the form of facilitation and animation of activities will be paid, thus creating one more impetus to participate. One more by-product of this training will be engaging the Lebanese youth in holding a humanitarian and educational responsibility towards the Syrian crisis thus soothing the tension raised as an aftermath of the influx.
