Learning through action- lTA

National Network
Lebanon
Address

Al Souk
Qab-Elias
Lebanon

Telephone
0096181682391
E-Mail
learnthroughaction@gmail.com
E-Mail (2)
yasserf@live.com
Mobile Phone
0096170174271
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2015
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
  2. Gender
  3. Human rights
  4. Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  5. Youth and education
General Information

LTA was established by a group of young and energetic women who
were highly motivated and committed for contributing their time, skills and energies for the development and empowerment of socially disadvantaged and vulnerable communities in Middle Bekaa area and addressing poverty issues and gender based discriminations.
LTA association was established in 2015, as the requested need of the local community, Palestinian refugees and the new Syrian crises, to reflect the belief that peace can be accomplished only if it is based on social justice. The driving forces for LTA creation arose from humanitarian, social, educational and economic considerations.
LTA association is a private non-political, non-profitable organization created to respond current need for people in order to sustained and strengthen and promote human right culture, peace building, good governance initiatives and tackle humanitarian crisis of the Syrian refugees in Bekaa area.

Mission and Objectives

08. Vision:
Develop, support and enrich youth experience for a better future, overflow with
equality and democratic.

09. Mission Statement:
"Promoting Community development, managing natural and human resources through
comprehensive community initiative, to improve people's lives and, enforcing the
permanent positive change in the lives of young people."

10. Goal and Objectives:
Developmental is our main goal, in its wide aspects of social and humanitarian sectors, which they seek to accomplish all that contributes to the achievement of development in all areas and fields through civilized development projects that responds to the call of community and human development and to contribute to the implementation of educational policies through extracurricular education and training programs, and through the two pillars following:
First, socially on the community level:
We aim to share the community development and deactivation of the social, educational, cultural and economic activities, and the enhancement and empowerment of human capabilities to support development and transfer knowledge to the sake of all active partners of the society especially, youth through:
1. Encourage development in the community through the training and education of young people. Working on the developing, understanding and applying of community and humanitarian skills and apply them. Training young people on life skills: communication, teamwork, leadership, training on democracy, active participation and decision-making skills.
2. Empowering youth and children and enhancing their abilities to define their own visions and future orientations for future, building social concepts and deepen their community participation.
3. Rehabilitation of young people for the labor market and help them find work and employment opportunities.
4. Improving the conditions of women and children and people with special needs through inclusion, remove all forms of discrimination, and neglect ion, marginalization, exclusion, and poverty reduction.
5-.Increase awareness in order to protect natural resources and the preservation of the environment, fight desertification and increase environmental awareness
Second, on the educational level:
1. Create and develop a specialized center for children and youth, which enhance and empower them and develop their technical skills, intellectual, creative and emotional abilities, and increase their academic achievement and contribute in building of society leaderships.
2. Assist the school and educational institutions in carrying out its mission in community development by providing educational, psychological and social services for children and young people and protect them from physical and psychological neglect and prevent them from being exposed to delinquency.
3. Provide guidance and educational services to parents in the field of ordinary or special needs children.
4. The production of teaching aids and materials necessary for the care and development of children's capabilities.
5. Upbringing of children socially, educationally and culturally by filling their leisure time.
7. Support children with learning difficulties to complete their education and establish system to fight school dropout and illiteracy.

Main Projects / Activities

01. Community Dev. Project funded by LTA.
02. Women economic empowerment through rural food production funded by BUM (Bekaa union of municipalities).
03. Embroidery funded by Palestinian Business men committee
04. Youth entrepreneur skills training. Funded by Injaz
05. Sport project -funded by Kab-Elias municipality.
06. Livelihood training project- funded by Persue
07.ICDL(IT) training funded by MPDL
08. Schools dropout summer academy funded by ARK.
09. Kids summer camp- Self funded.
10.Women rural food products exhibits
11.Secondary schools academic orientation
12.Litercay and live skills for Syrian refugees-Funded by MPDL
13. Sawa, to promote gender equality-CFLI, Canadian fund for local initiatives.
14. Winterization assistance (Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinians) funded by Life.
15.Health community , healthy family - Mediar
16.Livelihood training for Syrian refugees youth- Institut européen de coopération et de développement (IECD)
16.Health education for developed and healthy community- Mediar
17.Digital literacy of persons with disabilities -DOT
18. Grow my business training with Enterprise forum PAN Arab region

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

We can organizes and conducts a lot of cultural activities and programs including: conferences, seminars and workshops in the field of education, art, culture, community development, human rights and information.

We aim to achieve cultural and intercultural objectives and cooperation for development of the community members especially young people through:

- social, economic, educational, cultural, artistic activities and any activity related to sustainable development, human development and solidarity.

- Promote cultural and intercultural exchanges and the exchange of experiences, And establish cooperation and partnership relations. To establish a dialogue of civilizations likely to favor the opening towards new horizons with a view to a plural, diversified community and positively open to the international environment.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

We believe one hand can perform nothing, two hands can perform something, many hands can perform everything. LTA is in a continous search for local, national an international partners to build local, national and international networks seeking common understanding, that strengthen peaceful coexistence. We believe that Intercultural dialogue is valuable in maintaining social cohesion, peace and security, and for that reason, it was essential to treat cultures with equal respect, strengthen intercultural dialogue in an inclusive spirit, and settle conflicts by peaceful means.

Contact (1) Full Name
Yasser Faraj
Job Title
Programs Manager
Head of the organisation
Sanaa Khaled
Contact (2) Full Name
Sanaa Khaled
Job Title (2)
Executive Director