In Beirut we worked with the team at War Child Lebanon. We facilitated five days of training with a beautiful, diverse group of War Child staff members who are working in different departments of Psycho Social Support (PSS), Education, Child Protection, Case Management, Research & Inclusion.
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to temporarily stop our physical training sessions in the Middle East and we have missed this work a great deal. But we are looking forward to continuing as soon as possible and see the progress of our trainees who work with children and young people in Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, the Westbank and Northern Iraq/Kurdistan.
Read MoreWith the COVID-19 crisis, many daily jobs and tasks went ‘online’, which in turn forced us to ask ourselves the question: Can we somehow do our training sessions online?
Read MoreThis was the 5th training in the center of Ruwwad in Tripoli (Lebanon) and one of our wishes came true this time. We were able to combine old and new Sounds of Change trainees in one training, because we strongly believe that peer to peer earning is more effective than only learning from us.
Read More‘Trust no one’.
The tattoo on the left forearm of the heavily armed Lebanese soldier at the entrance checkpoint of the camp says a lot about how this young man probably has been affected by the history of this country. And exactly trust is what our training with the youth team of Azahir was all about this week.
Read MoreMaite and Lucas conducted the second training with the team of Ruwwad Jordan.
It's so lovely to see how the volunteers of Ruwwad have developed since our previous training. They started to implement music activities in their children programs already. They work with the children on active listening, working together and communication. Being able to use music is a great added value to the skills they already have.
