School education represents the future
inheritance of a nation. It forges the future of children, saves them from
ignorance, intolerance, poverty. Considering the bad economic situation
of Lebanon, and the high rate of unemployment, a great number of parents
were compelled to withdraw their children from schools. School sponsorship
is a great support to these families Without this participation to the tuition,
many children would be left on the street.
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3.1- Belgian
Sponsorship : |
2500 children are
actually sponsored by the generosity of the Belgian sponsors.
See history
year 1989-1990 click here
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3.2-World
Vision Sponsorship: |
230 children benefit from this sponsorship that is mostly
made by U.S. citizen and Australian. In addition to the sponsorship, we
also received from World Vision an aid that allowed us to finance the computer
project, the patchwork workshop and the children activities.
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3.3- Lebanese
Sponsorship : |
59 children are sponsored. An annual amount of LL 500000
is paid to the school and a receipt is given to the sponsor. These children
as well as those of the Belgian sponsorship keep a correspondence with their
sponsor, and send them at the end of the year their bulletin.
Courses are given at the Center, three times a week, to
39 children of the locality. Its objective is to make it possible to the
pupils to succeed at school and to assist them in their schoolwork.
Three teachers and a volunteer lady, give lessons to the children who are
divided into three groups, from class eleven to class seven.
These children are recruited at the request of their parents and after studying
their file. They generally have difficulties to succeed at school. Their
parents are not able to assist them in their studies, because they are either
illiterate or the mother works or their parents are of a violent nature.
These evening studies at the Center give them a chance to succeed at school
and to continue their studies, which they would have stopped for lack of
assistance.
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Evaluation:
- Finding solutions to the difficulties encountered during the previous
year such as unjustified absence of the pupils and the lack of discipline
of some.
- Planning and organizing the distribution of awards, three times a year,
to the most deserving pupils.
Measures taken by team:
The parents must notify the social assistant of the reason of absence, if
it is repeated more than 3 times, another child from the waiting list will
replace the absentee.
This measure has been efficient since then the number of pupils did not
decrease this year and that the parents always come to justify the absence.
A distribution of awards (progress, assiduity and cleanliness) took place,
for the first time on December 20, 2001 during which the best pupils were
rewarded. Gifts were distributed to 13 children. These awards, which motivate
the pupils, will be given three times per year.
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3.4.1-
Excursion
with I' International College (I.C): |
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During
the month of January, the students of the I.C organized four outings,
for the children following the attended studies; they played at school,
visited a zoo and went to McDonald' s. |
70 children are at the Day nursery.
The children are divided into 4 classes:
- Two-kindergarten age between 3 and 4 years
- One pre-school age from 2 to 2 ½ years
- One Nursery age between 1 ½ to 2 years.
The aim of the day nursery is:
- Allow the mothers to go to work
- Keep the child in a nice environment, clean healthy and
happy
- Help the child blooming and developing
- Support the parents in case they need to be listen to,
inform and direct them.
- Children that finish the kindergarten can be easily
accepted in different schools.
Activities are done on special occasion:
- Independence Day, Halloween, and Christmas.
Some parents organized their children birthday at the Center. An outing
to the theatre for the kindergarten was done. A medical visit is made
to the center by a pediatric, Dr. May Daou.
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