Awareness Activity: “My Teeth are Beautiful” – Harassta, Rural Damascus
Sat, 10/19/2019 - 07:29
Recreational Activities
Together Against Child Labor
When a child is forced to secure one’s future, they abandon school, toys and dreams, and start growing up too early, thus losing the spring and innocence of one’s childhood under the mental and physical pressure of hard work.
This is how child labor deprives children from the purest stage of their lives, turning them into children with men’s responsibilities, so they can secure their daily bread.
In order to protect our children from the risks of child labor, the team of Syrian Society for Social Development in Homs conducted a series of awareness-raising sessions on the occasion of World Day Against Child Labor, targeting women and adolescents from both genders, aged 13-18.
These sessions aimed to introduce children and their parents to the World Day Against Child Labor, as well as identify the forms of labor, its causes and negative consequences, in addition to highlighting child labor laws, namely the differences between child labor, which applies to children under the age of 15, and child work, which applies to children aged 15-18, and raise awareness about the risks of both child labor and work labor to both age groups.
The series concluded with an event implemented under the title Too Young to Work on the occasion of World Day Against Child Labor, which consisted of many parts.
Starting with a video report about child labor, the event featured a drama sketch demonstrating the risks of this phenomenon, followed by a slide show of child labor legislation. A video shed light on the services provided to beneficiaries aged 15-18 through coordination between the Mentoring and Vocational Training programs—the whole being concluded by a singing performance accompanied by oud.
“You opened my eyes to many issues,” said a mother by the end of the event, “issues that could take my son away from me.” An adolescent boy commented, “I will definitely work to help my family and earn my daily expenses, but all this will be within the restrictions I’m now aware of.”
Recreational Activity: The Loom – Sheen, Homs
Sat, 10/05/2019 - 12:22
Music, Food of the Soul
A group of adolescents- from Ghosen Community Center, Izra, Daraa- proposed organizing a musical show celebrating summer and Eid Al-Fiter. Their initiative came to life within two months from the opening of the center; the volunteers and the management of the center happily welcomed the initiative.
The adolescents were pleased with the center, as it provided space for singing and musical performance rehearsal, they also expressed their need for more spaces in the area, where young people and adolescents would be given the chance to practice their hobbies and develop their skills.
The adolescents were in full charge of organizing the musical show and received logistical back up from the center’s volunteers. The show was conducted on 1 June 2019 and was the first fruit of cooperation between the Syrian Society for Social Development (SSSD) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
A Fresh Start
Starting from our motto” on the margins and at the core” and the need to intervene in the most needed areas to secure protection factors for families, the work started in Sinjar / Rural Idlib, where the beginning was with implementing several focused group discussion sessions to assess the needs of families and then carried out a collective activity targeting different age groups of children, men and women , where varied paragraphs of games, competitions and theater puppets that the children interacted with significantly.
SSSD League - Hama
Al Sadiq program is one of the most important programs that support the youth skills. In addition, since meeting their interests, engaging them in the community center and achieving the UNHCR's approach in promoting social diversity are our priorities, The Syrian Society for Social Development – Nasij balad in partnership with UNHCR held a football tournament in which teams play to quality for the final match.
The league games included group escort sessions after each match in which some of the Al Sadiq values were introduced and dropped on their teams and practicing favorite hobby which is (Football) such as (cooperation) the acceptance of the other opinion and loss.
The final match was an event attended by approximately 125 person of children and residents of the neighborhood to encourage the two teams.
In conclusion, we crowned the first and second teams, awarded the league cup, gold and silver medals, presented a prize for the top scorer of the tournament and the best goalkeeper.