Mentoring Women Refugees Towards Empowerment and Leadership
Imagine a world where all women are supported and empowered to tell their stories and fulfil their potentials!
Empowering women is one of the most effective ways to help women express themselves and be active in their own stories. This will be achieved by leading them to form women committees and empower them to raise up their voices.
PARD developed a comprehensive training program supported by Canada fund for local initiatives (CFLI), which aims to strengthen the women committees, from the 5 gatherings (Al Mashouk, Shabriha, Jal Al Baher, Wasta, and Qasmiyeh).
Initial meeting was moderated by PARD’s community health worker, to introduce the participant women to the project trainer and coordinator.
An orientation session was given by the project trainer to the participating women, who are local community members. The project was properly introduced and explained to cover a summary of project activities, objectives, and nature of the training topics.
Rawya Al Qassim, participant from Jal al Baher:
“We were introduced to the project trainer Ghada Qassim and the coordinator Riham Hajjaj through PARD’s health social worker. The first session was an orientation session in order to familiarize us with the project topics such as domestic violence and early marriage. We liked the project idea of empowering us as women and train us to be more confident and have an effective role in our local community, and we hope such projects continues in the future.”
Reem Hamze, participant from Al Mashouk:
“The first session was about the community charter , and the entire project was held through 8 months. The thing I liked most was merging us with Jal al Baher group, where we had more interaction and acquaintance. We went out of this session with a strong networking and interaction between the two groups allowing us to share more information between us. It was a great session.”
The next phase of the project will be the empowerment sessions; covering about 12 topics and held twice a month for each group with a duration of approximately one and half hour for each session. To ensure proper communication with the participating groups, WhatsApp groups were created to constantly remind them of the training dates and to receive any possible inquiry they might have. The locations, timings and merging were decided upon the convenience of the women participating in the project.
Psychological Support Activities Plays Key Role after Beirut’s Port Explosion
The deadly explosion that ripped through Beirut’s port, on August 4 left many psychological repercussions on children’s mental health.
The three year old Mahmoud witnessed the wall of his bedroom collapse while the glass shattered all over his bed at the moment of the explosion. Mahmoud lives in small house in Karantina among two families of eight individuals in the same house. Fortunately he was in the lobby and didn’t get hurt, but the trauma resulted by such scene left him unable to leave his parent’s room for days.
PARD provided Mahmoud with the psychological aid that he needs in order to calm down post-traumatic stress caused by the explosion. PARD conducted home therapy visits over three days. The visits included art therapy activities by drawing, music therapy, scream therapy, and rhythm activities that included his family and friends. In addition to distributing candy, and toys in places near to his room. The psychologist also gave many recommendations to Mahmoud’s mother like adjusting the lighting in his room.
After providing Mahmoud with the essential psychological support needed, we were able to tackle down his shock, fear, and stress. By the end of three days, he was able to get out of the house, engage with his family and friends as normal again, with later home visits and psychological follow ups to be conducted in the future.
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PARD’s Mobile Clinic in the South
Our mobile clinic, supported by Solidaridad Internacional, settles at more than one stop in each area, informing beneficiaries beforehand on the clinic’s daily schedule in each area, making sure that most vulnerable communities are benefiting from services provided.
Our mobile clinic provides for free, an Obstetrician Gynecologist, ultra sound, pregnancy tests, pregnancy follow ups, and medications. In addition to conducting home visits for women delivered, while providing them with instructions on how to take care of their newborn baby.
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The Popular Aid for Relief and Development's plan of action during the economic crisis and the pandemic Covid-19 in Palestinian gatherings. Funded by the Canadian foodgrains bank CFGB, Mennonite central committee MCC, and the united nations development programme UNDP.
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