PROTECTING CHILDHOOD AND SUPPORTING EDUCATION

OUR PROGRAMS

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ECE Program
Bait Al Shams KG
  • The kindergarten is open to all children living in Shatila Camp. Not all of them are Palestinian, but as the camp was originally set up for Palestinian refugees being expelled from their homeland in the course of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, this section is to sketch some of the aspects to be considered in our work that is based on a culturally sensitive approach
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PSS Program
Emergency Pedagogy
  • Emergencies are part of life. Children and adolescents are not exempt. They suffer accidents, have to undergo necessary medical interventions or cope with the loss of friends and loved ones through relocation, divorce or death. Many are victims of violence, sexual abuse, neglect and poverty. When the incomprehensible has happened, nothing is as it was before
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S&C Program
Skateboarding
  • Since the beginning, Just.Childhood has been working with the communities living in the Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. The children and youth are often excluded from sports and any recreational activities and have hardly access to places to move in general. The Skateboarding program started as a collaboration with the organization Make Life Skate Life
PROTECTING CHILDHOOD AND SUPPORTING EDUCATION

JUST.CHILDHOOD`S AIMS

DEVELOPMENT WORK

Regarding education as one of the core issues of development work

CHILDREN

Supporting socially marginalised children in Lebanon in their right to play and learn in safety

SAFE SPACE

Providing a safe space for learning and playing on a continuous, reliable basis

EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

Emphasizing on early education in order to facilitate and ease entering school

CHILDREN`S RIGHTS

Promoting the children`s right to grow up free from fear, violence and to develop their full potential in order to contribute to a better future for themselves and others

HUMANISTIC APPROACH

Supporting a humanistic approach to pedagogy, providing the children the basis on which to develop into free, morally responsible and integrated individuals

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OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM

WALDORF

Just.Childhood and its kindergarten Bait al-Shams are founded on the social ideals grounded in an abiding belief that we can make a crucial difference in building a future society that is less violent, more just, and truly compassionate.

Waldorf Education in general wants to do something about our increasingly violent world. Few in the media draw a clear connection between violence and the way how we as parents and teachers raise and educate our children. Abstract concepts, rote learning, and standardized tests cannot develop the emotional and social intelligence our children need later in life to build relationships, contribute to society, and succeed in the workplace. Waldorf schools provide much-needed pathways toward wholeness—sensory and nature-based education; the arts; character education; community building; traditions of hospitality to name just a few.

    We visited the Just Childhood kindergarten in Shatila with one of the social enterprises of our portfolio to learn from their experience and discuss possible collaborations. We were beyond impressed by the professionalism of the team and the nurturing environment provided to the children. Walking through the Shatila camp and into the kindergarten made us feel like Alice arriving in Wonderland and we could tell from the smiles of the children that this magical place is truly changing their lives.

    Michelle Mouracade
    Alfanar Lebanon Country Director

    "Another world is not only possible, it is already in the making. On a still day I can hear her breathing" (Arundhati Roy, Indian writer)
    In Bait-al-Shams-Kindergarten in Shatila you can already hear this breathing and understand, that another world is possible! In difficult circumstances this is a peaceful place, where all the responsible, the managers, as well as the kindergarten teachers, give a lot of energy, patience and love into their work to make it possible that here the children can just be children! They create situations of happiness so that children and their families experience, that life is not only made of disasters, but also of beautiful, funny and joyful moments.  In this place of shelter they can really develop their strengths step by step.

    Andrea Wiebelitz
    Kindergarten Educator and trainer from Karlsruhe, Germany
    LETS WORK TOGETHER

    FUNDERS AND PARTNERS

    We would not have been able to start our project without the trust and support, financially and/or morally by our private partners, institutions and partner NGOs in Germany and Lebanon. We appreciate their support very much, especially for the trust in a new project like ours.

    GET INVOLVED

    With your help, we provide the children of our kindergarten a reformatory and sensitive approach to education based on the filial play to encourage their physical, emotional, mental, and social strength

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