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الأردن ولبنان: Young Cities

الأردن ولبنان: Young Cities

الأردن ولبنان: Young Cities

قام فريقنا في جميع المدن اللبنانية الثلاثة التي أطلقنا فيها البرنامج - طرابلس وصيدا ومجدل عنجر - بدعم الشباب والحكومات المحلية )البلديات( لمواجهة العديد من التحديات المختلفة. وقد عملت المبادرات التي يقودها الشباب عى تمكن اللاجئن والتخفيف من حدة التوترات المجتمعية والتصدي للصور النمطية وتشجيع مشاركة الشباب في الشؤون المدنية والعمل التطوعيوتسليط الضوء عى الممارسات الخاطئة وغر ذلك الكثر. كا وقام برنامج المدن الشابة Young Read More

Young Cities: Jordan & Lebanon

Young Cities: Jordan & Lebanon

Young Cities has been active in Lebanon since 2018, where we have supported 76 young peace-builders to launch 14 youth-led initiatives that have worked to empower refugee populations; ease societal tensions; tackle stereotypes; encourage youth civic participation and volunteerism; spotlighted Read More

Equipping Youth for their Future in Zarqa

Equipping Youth for their Future in Zarqa

Municipal actors pool resources and contacts together to lessen employment hurdles faced by young Jordanians. Zarqa’s Local Prevention Network (LPN) identified that the lack of skills and confidence among young people is a major barrier to them entering the labour Read More

Building Cohesion through Theatre in Karak

Building Cohesion through Theatre in Karak

Youth and city actors use art as a medium to bridge divides across community lines in Jordan. The Local Prevention Network (LPN) in Karak wanted to use theatre as a medium to raise awareness of inter-communal tension and discrimination and Read More

Reshaping Violent Religious Narratives in Irbid

Reshaping Violent Religious Narratives in Irbid

Young people and city actors collaborate to identify how religion is manipulated to incite hate and extremism in Jordan. In Irbid, the Local Prevention Network (LPN) – a prevention and resilience unit composed of representatives from different municipal governmental departments Read More

Zarki (Ambassador Grant)

Zarki (Ambassador Grant)

Exploring the root causes of disinformation spread during the pandemic Young people in Jordan are taking a critical approach to understand how to fill gaps in digital literacy levels, given new threats in the online space. In the wake of Read More

We Are All Human (Ambassador Grant)

We Are All Human (Ambassador Grant)

Expanding creative opportunities to uplift people with disabilities. A youth-led project is expanding its impact in empowering marginalised groups through the power of art. We Are All Humans already broke the mould with their approach to countering ableist discrimination and Read More

Zarki

Zarki

Countering the 'Pandemic of Disinformation' A group of young nurses and students dismantled prevalent misconceptions and anxieties around the COVID-19 vaccination in their community. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Zarki were concerned by the prevalence of misinformation and Read More

We Are All Human

We Are All Human

Tackling disability discrimination through puppet theatre. Puppet theatre made the topic of ableism more accessible to a younger audience and increased the confidence of individuals suffering from motor impairments. Already a well-established and well-recognized youth collective in the Zarqa community, Read More

Design

Design

Building resilience among victims of cyber-bullying. Team Design led a series of trainings and developed a suite of resources to reduce cyber-bullying in Zarqa. Red Films are a video-production house based in Lahore. Their focus is on making thought-provoking short Read More

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