Social Protection

Year

2007

National

Hariri Foundation partnered with Mercy Corps and Aman Youth Association to implement the “Healing by Art” project, which aimed to teach community members and stakeholders how to integrate creative expressive arts into their work with children and adults to help them recover from the wounds of traumatic experiences. The project’s key concepts comprised the promotion of art as a process that transforms images of oneself from being victimized to being in control, from being helpless to being powerful, and from being destructive to being constructive. Partners provided a training of trainers to educational professionals, conducted over six workshops across Lebanon and covering themes such as creating a safe and supportive environment, setting the mood for free expression, and gathering resources.

The project demonstrated the effect of art on emotional healing, enhanced growth, and optimal learning, benefiting both the trainees and those they teach in the future. 120 Lebanese and Palestinian educational professionals in South Lebanon and North Lebanon participated in the training, and students indirectly benefiting from the trainings of their direct educators was estimated at 6,000 children.

Year

1982 - 1995

Address

Beirut, Saida

In partnership with the SALVE Association, Hariri Foundation set forth and implemented a plan to provide orphans and their families with financial aid and promising opportunities for education and civic engagement. The project aimed at rehabilitating and safeguarding those families to achieve financial independence. The project initially targeted 25 families, providing full financial support and in-kind assistance. In 1986, those children, along with 50 students from Saida, had the opportunity to travel to Amboise, France to participate in a recreational summer camp.

Towards the completion of the project, 75 families were targeted, as orphan children received full scholarships to pursue and complete their vocational educational at the George Pompidou Institute in Paris, France. The opportunities granted to those children were paralleled with vocational trainings offered to their mothers, who received support in the production and marketing of their clothing and accessories.