Summer activities

The summer has been filled with both activities and most importantly for some of the Self Help Group, work! For those not working, they have taken part in a photography workshop to explore diversity and tolerance and volunteered at a fund raising activity which took place over two days. The idea of the event was to create a child friendly space for both Lebanese and Palestinian children with and without disabilities to interact and play together and share in a talent show and other activities. The event was opened by the Mayor of Sur and the Sunni, Shia and Christian leaders of the community. UNIFIL and many NGO's were involved in the event and many businesses helped with sponsorship or prizes. It was an event which encompassed the whole community and laid the foundations for future events.

Other activities have included making a small movie like presentation for each school that we taught at last year to thank them for their genuine enthusiasm and participation and over the last few weeks of summer we will be preparing more materials and training the SHG to train teachers on internet safety.

Over the last year, the SHG have become a confident group of trainers and we hope to find new areas in which they can give trainings that will hopefully become a future source of employment for them.