Furn El Shebek, Civil Defense Street, Bedier Bldg,1st floor
Beirut
Lebanon
- Democracy and community development
- Environment/Sustainable development
- Human rights
- Youth and education
We seek to promote effective participation of 'citizen', citizenship, and human rights.
We believe our name expresses us the best; our concern is the marginalized group (such as youth, women, children) and their role – how we can empower them and enhance their role, which we believe that if we do so, we will be able to contribute to developing our communities and to putting citizenship, human rights and democracy values into practice…
Project Card
CitiAct First Project Carried
Title: “…And we met”
Duration: 9 Months (July 2011 – March 2012)
Target Groups: 45 youth (males and females); between 18 and 26 years old
Target Areas: 2 areas: (1) Sfeir – Hadath and (2) Chyah – Ein El Remmaneh
Funded by: OTI (Office of Transition Initiatives)
Project Objectives
The main objective of this project is to improve youth activism towards their communities throughout TOT training, awareness raising and joint community-service activities that respond to economic and social needs; focusing on 2 model areas: Sfeir – Hadath and Chyah – Ein El Remmaneh.
Specific Objectives:
Objective 1: Provide TOT trainings and awareness raising for at least 30 youth in Southern Suburb of Beirut
Objective 2: At least 30 youth aged between 18 to 26 years old will be mobilized and divided into two groups in Southern Suburb of Beirut
Objective 3: Identify and implement 8 community projects
About the Project
The project content lies under the umbrella of 2 values: citizenship and youth participation; its main axes are capacity building for a group of selected youth and community activities carried by the selected youth.
The project was officially launched on the 26th of September 2011 through a celebrative Iftar organized by CitiAct at Rotana Hotel in Hazmieh. The Iftar gathered social, religious, municipal figures and youth from the regions of Sfeir, Hadath, Chyah and Ein El Remmaneh.
45 persons aged between 18 and 26 years old (from the regions of Sfeir, Hadath, Chyah and Ein El Remmaneh) joined the project and declared their commitment to attend the whole trainings and meetings and to carry the implementation phase. The trainings tackled topics such as: citizenship and civil participation, conflict resolution, leadership, communication skills and social media. There are 2 remaining topics that the youth will attend: project management and photography.
Throughout the project and in parallel with the trainings, the youth were involved directly with the project team to carry the community activities. They have been identifying a list of activities in their neighborhoods that respond to their needs, thus implementing social, economical and recreational activities on a monthly base.
Currently the youth are discussing and preparing to carry another two joint community service projects that emphasize on building their committed activism towards developing their communities.
In the last phase of the project, we can say that we have faced difficulties and challenges, but what is more important is that we have sensed success and change; we, the project team and the youth, are motivated and devoted to complete this project and launch new ones.
Although we are newly founded organizations, but we are able till now to gather around us a group of committed youth from different backgrounds... We are able to share our experience of working in the suburbs of Beirut (marginalized areas) with the network of our country.
- To be able to work with different organizations.
- To benefit from trainings
- To be able to apply for grantr
- To be able to work with different local NGOs and carry common actions