Multi-dimensional Peacebuilding Community-led Initiatives

Our Initiatives

Child Development & Protection  

When children are safe, engaged, and supported, the future becomes brighter. This area promotes environments that nurture children’s full development—socially, emotionally, physically, and cognitively. Activities may range from safe play spaces to mobile learning, always centering children’s well-being.

Completed

Hope Makers – Level I – صانعات الأمل – المرحلة الأولى

Led by a group of mothers, this initiative created a welcoming play space where women and children from different nationalities could safely interact. It helped build friendships, challenge stereotypes, and promote understanding through shared activities.

Ongoing

Together we Learn Chess level 2 – (معاً نتعلم الشطرنج المستوى الثاني) 

By using chess as a learning and dialogue tool, this initiative creates safe, structured environments for children and youth to build focus, critical thinking, and peaceful interaction. It offers a powerful, play-based model for youth engagement across divided communities.

Completed

Baalbek’s Blessings – خيراتك يا بعلبك

This dairy production initiative offered affordable, additive-free products while distributing weekly food portions to 40 vulnerable families. It integrated persons with disabilities into production and social activities, while hosting recreational events for children.

Completed

You and I – أنت و أنا

This inclusive initiative was created by and for persons with disabilities, offering football and recreational activities for children in an accessible, joyful environment. It helped foster dignity, play, and participation

Completed

Joyful Gathering – لمة فرحة

Lamet Farha brought cinema to underserved neighborhoods, screening films for children and women that promote peace and shared values. It created moments of joy, inclusion, and reflection for communities with limited access to cultural experiences.

Completed

Butterfly Circus – سيرك الفراشة

A mobile circus offering fun, educational performances that build children’s confidence and community ties. The experience was documented in a short film, turning joyful expression into collective memory

Completed

Our Village – ضيعتنا

This initiative revived local customs and traditions by organizing a community-wide cultural event that brought together Lebanese and Syrian families for a day of recreation, storytelling, and celebration in the village’s public space. The event promoted peaceful coexistence, eased tensions between clashing clans over a landfill dispute, and fostered cultural exchange between diverse residents.

Completed

Generations of Learning – أجيال المعرفة

This initiative established a public library accessible to both children and adults in Adwe, providing books for those who cannot afford them. It aimed to promote literacy, expand children’s imaginations through storytelling, and encourage community-wide reading and learning. A video projector was installed to screen and discuss educational films and documentaries. Additionally, participants rehabilitated the community center hosting the library, turning it into a functional, welcoming space for learning and dialogue.
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