Mount Lebanon, Kesrouan, Ghazir, Saint Anthony Monastery
Diocese of Maronites, Baalbeck, Deir El Ahmar
Ghazir or Deir El Ahmar 1800
Lebanon
- Democracy and community development
- Environment/Sustainable development
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Religion
- Youth and education
Vision
Youth for Peace Lebanon envisions a global culture of peace based on justice, solidarity, inclusiveness, and shared responsibility through active peaceful engagement of youths in social community service.
Mission: Infused with a foundation of spirituality and values which are universal in nature, we aim to help bring about a culture in which the Lebanese youths from all over Lebanon and from various religious sects address together their common concerns in a positive, holistic and transforming way and live together in peace with one another.
Objectives
The active promotion of children’s rights.
Support activities for the promotion of sociable sustainable development projects run by the citizens (adults and infants).
To raise community awareness on socio-cultural, environmental and livelihood issues.
To raise community awareness on civil and legal issues.
To empower communities and institutions to improve sustainable natural resource management and participation in society building through capacity building, self consciousness and information dissemination.
To empower teachers' leadership and students' leadership within schools in rural areas.
1- Trained 60 teachers on "Active Citzenship towards Sustainable Development" from 12 different schools in Lebanon.
2- Trained 850 students (age 12 to 16) on the same theme above.
3- Run 12 different social initiatives projects (by the students) in 12 different ruaral areas, involving the local communities.
4- Trained 258 teachers from 11 schools on "Psychology of learning, Student Leadership, Cooperative Learning)
5- Trained 23 school principals on stategic planning and development.
provide a scientific based approach in the education sector (state and public) concerning the assessement and evaluation of the students' and teachers' built competences and relating them to the curricula context.
equip students and teachers, along with parents and municipalities with the skills of conflict resolution and social initiatives planning and execution, and assess the execution and sustainability of those initiatives.
equip farmers in the Bekaa valley with alternative crops planting skills and assess the implementation process
provide an exchange scheme between students of multi-religious sects on Active Citizenship.
Youth for Peace is founded by a number of educators and priests in 2014. Its first aim is to induce a positive change within the Lebanese citizens especially tartgeting the rural areas. We want to GROW and perform in a holistic approach, therefore the ALF Network is an opportunity.