Amel needs you and your Vote to win the Convergences Award!!
It is the only Lebanese NGO represented in the Award
So go head, #VoteForAmel on the following link .
What is the Convergences Awards?
Every year since 2011, the Convergences Awards reward the best projects initiated by public, private and solidarity-based partners seeking to build a fair and sustainable future and a “Zero exclusion, Zero carbon, Zero poverty” world. The Convergences Awards are open to projects carried out by a solidarity-based or academic/research organisation in partnership with private or public organisations. The project must have a high social and/or environmental impact; it must also be innovative and replicable.
What are the Rewards?
Which Amel Project is taking Part in the Convergences Awards?
The Mobile Educational Unit – Amel Bus
“The Amel Bus”, is a special vehicle equipped with educational and recreational materials (books, educational games, numeric tablets, etc) as well as a cabinet for psychological consultation, benches, tables and movie-projection equipment. The bus operates directly in the Informal Settlements in different areas of Lebanon on a weekly basis, and provides vulnerable children with Retention support activities (homework support and remedial sessions) psychosocial activities (individual consultations, focus groups and awareness sessions for the parents), recreational and cultural activities (weekly movie projections in the ITS, outdoor activities, drawings, theatre, etc) thanks to our partnership with Les enfants de la Méditerranée.
Main Issues tackled by the Amel Bus :
In Lebanon, more than 1.2 million children and young people are considered vulnerable and more than half of Syrian refugees are under 18 years of age. The education system is among the “basic services” most affected by the Syrian crisis. In 2016-2017, among the 496,000 Syrian refugees of school-going age (3-18 years), only 48 per cent are enrolled in formal education, according to UNICEF. The minority of children who successfully integrate into the formal system face major challenges in catching up, keeping up and staying in school, because of the backlog of years spent outside school, of the differences between Syrian and Lebanese curriculum, trauma, discrimination and harassment suffered by these children and / or economic difficulties of families to pay daily the cost of transport to school and school materials (in addition to clothing, health and food) . The school failure rate and the risk of dropping out of this population are therefore critical.
By Supporting Amel, you concurrently give Amel visibility to its values and projects. This year Amel decided to join this contest to represent the causes that the NGO is working for since 1979.
Amel needs you and your Vote to win the Convergences Award!!
It is the only Lebanese NGO represented in the Award
So go head, #VoteForAmel on the following link .
