Through the various programs which UNICEF and the Lebanese Organization for Studies and Training (LOST) have implemented together, the “Skills for Active Youth” program has lasted the longest and provided services to the largest number of Lebanese and Syrian youth beneficiaries along a period of 5 consecutive years. “Skills for Active Youth” is directed towards […] Read more
“Africa’s Premier Diva”, as named by Time Magazine, Beninese Award-winning singer/songwriter and activist Angelique Kidjo paid a visit to the informal settlements in Lebanon (where UNICEF holds a partnership with LOST), a day prior to her participation in Baalbeck International Festivals. On the 15th of July, 2017, Ms. Kidjo (UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador), accompanied by Ms. […] Read more
Timed with the final stages of launching Cycle Two of the Learning and Skills program for Lebanese and Syrian youth, a UK Natcom delegation paid a visit to LOST center in Bedneyel on the 12th of July 2016. The delegation, accompanied by UNICEF and LOST staff, aimed to check upon the progress of the project […] Read more
Moayad Dersany (16 years old) is one of millions of Syrian youth who, because of the Cross-the-Country Crisis, have been displaced from their social environments and everyday life to be left for their own destiny. Moayad and his family roamed over Lebanon 2 years ago and shifted houses across Lebanon until they settled to Baalbeck. […] Read more
Search For Common Ground (SFCG) and The Lebanese Organization for Studies and Training (LOST) celebrate their final event in their Better Together Now project that started two years ago. On Saturday, March 26th, 450 people from all over Baalbek–Hermel gathered in Tamooz Hall in Baalbek to view a showcase prepared by the youth participants. The […] Read more
On Saturday April 25th, 2015, the Lebanese Organization of Studies and Training (LOST) organized a “Peak Activity” at Baytna restaurant in Baalbeck bringing together 48 youth (25 Lebanese and 23 Syrian youth from an ITS in Douris/ Balkijian). The Activity, merely a Karaoke and singing followed by lunch, aimed at merging the Syrian adolescents with […] Read more
On the occasion of Mother’s Day, and as a token of human responsibility and empathy towards the Syrian refugees, the Lebanese youth engaged in UNICEF/LOST social cohesion program celebrated Mother’s Day at an ITS in Jdeidi of northern Bekaa, bringing together Syrian youth, their parents and siblings to the event. Youth from the hosting community along […] Read more
When Elissa Mazloum, a seventeen year old Lebanese student that descends from Baalbeck, set her mind out on her initiative, she had no clue to the rolling snowball effect it will create. Elissa, a high school senior was recently recruited to the “EDUCATION AND LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION FOR SYRIAN REFUGEES AND LEBANESE ADOLESCENT” as part […] Read more
“Better Together: A Youth-led Approach to Peaceful Coexistence,” is a LOST and Search for Common Ground Lebanon EU-funded partnership project designed to address the challenges of social cohesion among Syrian and Lebanese youth. The first phase of the project involved a summer camp integrating conflict resolution trainings with artistic workshops in drawing, theater, music, and […] Read more
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 […] Read more
