In response to the women's request to learn about the basics of correcting their children’s wrong behavior, the Syrian Society for Social Development (SSSD), in cooperation with the UNHCR, conducted awareness sessions for the mothers of the Friendship Group children entitled "Code of Conduct", under the Home-Based Rehabilitation Programme at Bayt Alaila Center in Hama, Messiaf.
During the sessions, women were introduced to conduct and how to guide their children’s behaviors. Also, the correct code of conduct and strategies needed to be applied were defined.
At the end of the sessions, the women expressed their joy and gratitude for the valuable information they learned from the sessions, which alerted them to the wrong behaviors they were following with their children.
A training on Psychosocial Intervention through Puppetry was conducted in Masyaf on May 1, 2019 and attended by 25 trainees, working mostly with children and adolescents.
The training aimed at introducing various types of drama games and Applied Drama and Theatre (ADT) models and methodologies. More specifically, games and methods were chosen so as to help adolescents restructure their memories and past experiences and seize opportunities to explore and find possible solutions for current problems.
The trainees were given the chance to apply in a safe space the drama exercises and games they had learnt.
This practical aspect of the training will certainly enable them to understand the course that an adolescent could possibly take during actual intervention. Additionally, the training also focused on the theoretical basis of those exercises—namely, the five-phase model of drama therapy sessions, the complex circle model and the growth and developmental EPR model (Embodiment-Projection-Role).
Because they are a class of the fabric of this society, and everyone has to accept them and try to integrate them in all aspects of life and services, and within the campaign carried out by the team of the Syrian Society for Social Development in cooperation with the UNHCR, on the occasion of the International Day of Down Syndrome, SSSD(Child Protection Team)held an awareness session on the need to accept children of Down syndrome and the risks of abuse and the need for attention by the family as the first link of protection and that in several aspects (educational, physical, emotional and medical), and was discussed on the main points in the subject through vvideo presentation on the experiences gained some children through their presence in the activities we have, in addition to the tribal and posttestquestionnaire. The activity was held in Home of Family CC in Masyaf- Hama.
Because of the importance of integrating children with special needs with the normal children in the community center of house of family -Masiaf, the Syrian Society for Social Development, in cooperation with the UNHCR and within the home rehabilitation program, hada merging activity after preparing the children and talk with them about on how to deal with a child with special needs
They had competitions togetherand after that, the children with special needs distributed the balloons tothe children and danced together.
After the huge efforts and the hard-working of the adolescents during the exams period, and the beginning of the holidays, SSSD team in cooperation with the UNHCR in the House of Family community center / Hama - Masyaf implemented a series of recreational activities within the Friend program in order to organize the children’s’ time and use the time they have to acquire new knowledge and establish friendly relations between the children from different villages and regions.
These activities include visits to the horse farm, getting to know the Arabian horse breeds, visit to the mechanical bakery in Masyaf area, identification of the mechanism and stages of making bread, in addition to a number of entertainment activities like competitions. We closed with the activity that included a number of young people from several villages in the charity hall in Al Bayda.
Because they are the most marginalized groups in the society and because they are in need of support and highlight their rights and in order to integrate them with their peers and try to change some misconceptions and create a generation that advocates for the rights of people with special needs, on the occasion of World Day for People with Special Needs, the (UNHCR) in the governorate of Hama with the participation of associations and bodies working in the field of care for people with special needs, A month-long campaign was held to the people with special needs and their mothers.
The aim of the awareness sessions was to raise the level of awareness of the beneficiaries on the concept of disability, the rights of the disabled people, how to deal with them, develop their talents and abilities to become effective people within the community, and to organizing and implementing the events
The campaign concluded a number of activities that included various sections: a varied theater, choral, dances, legal presentations explaining the rights of people with special needs in Syrian law, and many paragraphs that included a large number of people with special needs, and the teenagers of the child club who had many sessions on accepting the other.