Gaziantep Child-Friendly Center is one of our projects that aims to develop and strengthen the psychology of children to guarantee them a bright future and a less harsh present.
The center provides a safe place for children affected by the recent earthquake, mainly to practice educational and recreational activities

One of our most important projects aims to develop and strengthen children’s psychology to guarantee them a bright future and a less harsh present
The project consists of 5 child-friendly centers distributed in areas where refugee camps and those mainly affected by the recent earthquake gather.
The centers provide a safe place for children to practice educational and recreational activities

The project is a community center in the village of Ghandoura
The Joint Center targets the community, without any exception, from Sundays to Thursdays from 9 am to 5 pm as part of a group of activities:
– Child-friendly space
– Specialized community training to build community capacity
– Forming community and other committees that are selected in coordination with the community members themselves

50 IHR staff and 20 volunteers received extensive training onPSEA to participate in the community awareness-raising campaigns ” together against SEA”
400 individuals (members of local councils or camps’ managements, medical center employees, educational members, legal persons) benefited from PSEA awareness sessions o, where 40 awareness sessions will be organized in specific centers or remotely provided by two trained IHR PSEA focal points
160 individuals ( from different age and gender categories) participate with 20 FGD to discuss the associated challenges arising with humanitarian interventions, to what extent that the humanitarian workers are committed to the principles of PSEA principles
20,000 individuals ( different age and gender groups ) participate with community awareness campaigns “Together Against SEA” to ensure that beneficiaries know the acceptable and unacceptable behaviors of humanitarian workers and how to report the SEA issues and their concerns and fears

1- Mobile team’s structure, the response will be carried out by 4 mobile teams will cover Dana, Afrin, Azaz, and Jenderis. Each team consists of two PSS workers and two case management workers, and a team leader in a total of 5 people for each team.
2- Providing protection prevention activities to new IDPs (PFA, Recreational activities, PSS, Awareness Raising Sessions, IEC Materials Distributing). First of all, the mobile teams’ members will be trained on main protection topics:
• Child Protection in Emergency
• Psychological First Aid
• Risk Education.
• Case Management principles and Steps
• Referral Pathway.
• Child Protection Minimum Standards
• Referral Pathway.

Those teams will be supported by qualified IHR teams who already received technical training via the WCH team in other projects in the targeted locations to gain more experience.
3- Establish 4 CFSs: Those centers will provide Structured PSS (using DEALS, SRA, She Deals, or Win-Win depending on the need and age group).
4- Service mapping, with awareness-raising for IDPs on services available in the area, with safe identification and referral.
5- Distribution of small PSS kits (hygiene items, stress balls, dignity items).

IHR teamwork on rehabilitation for one school in Dabiq, Soran sub-district

The project aims to reach a total of 300 students including CwDs (110 boys and 190 girls) aged between (8-18) years old through the following interventions:

1- 300 (boys, girls) children in 2 education centers (Dana) providing non-formal education.

2- 300(boys, girls) children in 2 education centers (Dana) providing school bags.

3- 300 (boys, girls) children in 2 education centers (Dana) providing text books.

4- 100 Newly IDPs children will be targeted by BTL sessions. IHR will focus on importance of Education and distribute posters.

5- 150 Newly IDPs parents will target by BTL sessions

The project provided Vocational Skill Training in sewing to 30 women, and provided 15 of them by sewing kits while the other 15 women established their job with a sewing workshop established by IHR, at the end of the project IHR in coordination with Balad organization had founded a women association to manage the sewing workshop after the project period

1- Maintain and improve access to equitable formal education for 2,250 children (1,237 boys and 1,013 girls) aged between (5-17) years old in 5 schools in Dana sub-district. The academic calendar will include providing psychosocial support sessions provided by specialists and the teachers will have service maps and train on referral mechanisms to the nearest protection and GBV centers.

2- Enhancing access to equitable non-formal education for 1,050 out-of-school children (570 boys, 480 girls) in 7 education centers (5 in Dana) and (2 in Jandairis). Through this component remedial, literacy and numeracy classes are provided to school-aged children to help them reengage informal education and teachers are supported with an incentive (28 volunteer teachers 17men,11 women).

3- Is pilot initiative providing (72; 40 girls/ 32 boys) illiterate children aged between (12-17) years old, with a disability and have mobility difficulties to reach educational centers with in-house literacy and numeracy courses through 2 mobile teams attached to Dana center to work in Dana and nearby locations?

In a partnership with both “Gaziantep Municipality” and “Basmeh and Zeitooneh” Organization, IHR organization launches the project titled “Peace Education” In Ensar Center – (Narly Tepe) Area.
The project’s objectives:
“Peace Education” project targets 120 Syrian children in the ages ranged between 6-12 years old from both female and male. Peace Education’s sessions will last for 3 months at a rate of two sessions a week, two hours for the per session. The program utilizes artistic and creative activities as the primary tool through which children who have experienced conflict and/or displacement can express themselves, learn how to address the problems they are facing, and protect themselves from various social vulnerabilities and abuses. The Proposed project will help Children to overcome their Psychological trauma, moving from being victims to become survivors.
The essential sessions of Peace Education are 16 sessions
The Methodology:
Relationship with self
1-Self-expression 2- Building self-confidence  3- Body image  4- Personal space

Relationship with the other
5- The harmony with the other 6- Accepting the other 7- Building the group 8- Loss and mourning (persons)

Relationship with Social medium
9- Loss and nostalgia (places)  10- Adaptation 11- Social engagement and connection
12- Productivity in the society  13- Knowledge skills.  14-Emotional skills.

This project aims to help and support the Syrian refugees in this area (Halba) to gain vocational information all long with practical experience that allow them to easily work and gain daily income.
The project tends to improve the qualifications and capabilities of the Syrian refugee in Halba area in different domains (Sewing, Electricity, Electronics and Mechanics) for a period of six months where they will be trained by technical and administrative experts and that will help them gain the proper theoretical science and practical experience to be able to run their career later on.

Since to be completing his/her education is a basic right for each student refugee who was deprived from completing his/her studies due to the current war in ٍٍٍٍٍٍSyria since 3 years and since they will be the ones who will build again what war has destroyed in Syria, the International Humanitarian Relief – IHR will be starting a collage scholarship project who guarantees to pay all the university premiums for the 22 beneficiary who couldn’t complete their studies due to their inability to pay these premiums since in Lebanon the collage premiums are normally high compared to other countries.