Protection

Last month IhsanRD organized a training for the protection teams in Idlib and western Aleppo countryside at the child friend centers of Ihsan in Syria.

The training was attended by 55 trainees from the IhsanRD protection team, including the staff at the Child’s Friend Center in Taqad and the mobile teams in Al-Sahharah, Kafruweid and Armnaz.

The training included several topics in 1 – Child protection during crises 2 – Primary psychological assistance 3 – Minimum standards in child protection 4 – Child – Friendly Spaces 5 – Fundamentals of case management 6 – Communication skills with children. The training also included useful tools and techniques for facilitation, as well as detailed training modules with key learning points, lesson plans and interactive exercises.

The training aims to increase the efficiency of the protection team at IhsanRD in order to enhance the skills of dealing with children and address the issues of protection of children during the war they are going through.

In order to support and empower women, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the Women’s Creative Center Supported by IhsanRD in Jarabulus city and The Stabilization Committee of the Aleppo Governorate Council, which is carrying out many projects aim to support and activate the role of civil organization in the governorate. Due to the MOU, the Committee provided seven sewing machines to the Women’s Creative Center in Jarabulus, which will benefit from within the scheduled activities in the classes of developing the vocational sewing skill of participant women.

Women’s Creativity Center in Jarabulus is one of many centers operated by IhsanRD in several areas of Syria. Through its centers, IhsanRD aims to support women’s creativity, develop their skills and raise their awareness of their special role and abilities through training activities for women and girls in various professional and educational aspects psychological support.

 A new session is held every two months. The activities of the Women’s Creativity Center in Jarabulus during the last session included about 500 women. The centers include activities and multiple classes in literacy, computer skills, sewing and wool knitting, English, hairdressing courses, and sessions about life skills for girls. The center has a nursery room to relieve the burden of mothers participating in scheduled programs. The Center’s activities also include mobile teams conducting awareness sessions for women and girls outside the center.

In spite of the suffocating siege and heavy shelling of the eastern Ghouta near the capital Damascus, Child Friendly Space (CFS) team organizes a variety of recreational activities for children in shelters at their neighborhoods to relieve them of what they are going through where mobile teams carries out activities in Haza, Kafr batna, Saqba and Ein Tarma As part of a contingency plan as a result of the difficult conditions in the eastern Ghouta and to ensure continuity of work and reduce the risk to the lives of children because of transporting.

Child Friendly Space in Al-Ghouta continues to provide parents skills to deal with children in a way that helps them to raise their children properly, especially in the harsh conditions of war that affect children and leave a variety of effects on different levels of psychological, social and study.

In addition to parenting skills lectures for parents, the center regularly organizes many other activities within and outside the center, such as scheduled activities for children in recreation, awareness and psychological support, as well as adult awareness lectures.

The Child Friendly Space (CFS) in the eastern Ghouta is one of many centers Supported by Ihsan for Relief & Development, which are spread in several other governorates in Syria, such as the center in Jarablus in northern Syria and Rastan’s Center in Homs province.

Because the youths are the most precious asset we invest in, and because IhsanRD believes that a better society cannot be built without the participation of active youth who have the tools of production; therefore, Ihsan for Relief and Development implements several projects to support young people and qualify them on professional and social aspects to be independent individuals and self-reliant and to be also actors in building their communities.

The Youth Support Center in the northern Homs countryside is one project within the Protection program at IhsanRD. The center alternately receives male and female youth on a weekly basis, aged (16-24 years old) in English language classes, computer skills, men’s haircuts, women’s hairdressing, and first-aid classes. In addition to classes inside the center, there are external training that includes (car mechanics, motor mechanics, the electricity of cars, home painting and mobile maintenance courses).

In a related context, the center also includes many recreational activities, sports and cinema sessions as well as open discussion sessions.

About 500 boys and girls are participating in the current course, which lasts for about two months. The number of participants in the YSC project in the northern Homs countryside reached 4680 boys and girls since the beginning of 2017.