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.

With “small steps” and eyes gleaming with hope, the children filled the ceremonial halls in the governorates of Damascus, Sweida, Aleppo, Hama, Tartous, Homs and Hasakeh, where the Syrian Society for Social Development (SSSD) is carrying out its activities. And with joyful voices, they sang the slogan of the Rights of the Child Campaign, which was carried out throughout November:
My rights are many,
but with one small step
I own myself…
and them in the process!
The campaign included a variety of activities targeting children, adolescents and caregivers. It aimed at raising awareness about the rights of the child and the importance of all children’s access to them, and was concluded with a number of events to celebrate World Children’s Day.
During the events, the children presented artistic performances that emphasized the rights of the child, provided for in the 1989 UN Convention, and highlighted the causes of children’s exposure to risks, such as child labor, school dropout and even delinquency. These causes include not only depriving the child of care in general and family care in particular, but also neglecting and marginalizing children during childhood and other growth stages, which negatively affects them, and then the community as a whole.
The children’s interaction with the events’ activities and artistic performances was truly remarkable. Making use of their various talents, they were able to convey the message to their peers, as well as to their parents, teachers and other groups that attended. The Small Steps Campaign and Events constituted a strong step towards achieving a safe and healthy childhood and a new space for children—provided by SSSD in cooperation with the UNHCR.