Theory of Change by emma leconte https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z A radicalisation prevention programme for youth at risk of recruitment in Syria refugees camps in Lebanon en-us 2021-11-09 16:13:43 UTC 2021-11-22 18:33:00 UTC hello@padlet.com emmalecontenavarro https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1888572958 Our program is a radicalisation prevention programme for youth at risk of recruitment in a refugees camp in Lebanon.  Our goal is to create effective socio-economic alternatives to radicalisation to the  young people of the camps. To achieve this we want ton set up a creative project in which the children participate directly. The idea is to accompany them in the creation and writting of a book that will teach them about diferent religions, tolerance and the dangers of radicalisation. The children would directly write and illustrate the book by themselves. Our radicalisation prevention program is focused on education because it's one of the most important factors to avoid radicalisation. The objectives of the program are: 
- To give to the children a safe space where they can express  themselves freely.
- To get them involved in positive and educational activities, instead of going to work, or participate in violent, criminal activities. 
- To connect these kids to positive adult role models
- To uplifting their imagery
- To to transmit to them principles of tolerance and respect for others and other religions
- To make them understand the difference between the practice of a religion and radicalisation and the dangers of the latter
-  To offer them a medium (the book) in which all children can learn about religion and the dangers of religion made by and for children. The aim is that this book is passed on to the children, so that they can share their work and what they have learned with each other. 

The main objective is to make the children aware of the dangers of radicalisation so that they can avoid it by making them do something by themselves that they can be proud of.

 ]]> 2021-11-13 21:33:38 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1888572958 https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1892583180 We want to prevent radicalization among Syrian children in refugee camps in Lebanon. So we will try to influence the push factors. Negative identity is present in many Syrian children because in effect, children under 11 years old have only known war, conflict, fear and violence. We will try to correct this negative identity through our project by trying to give the child a vision of what his or her life should be like at this age. The goal is for the camp to become a place where the children can come out of it grown up and at peace. We will therefore focus on the mental and physical state of the child. For the physical state, we will provide doctors who will be there to help the refugees. For the mental state we have set up this project of cooperation between the children and communication but also education so that they feel supported and understood. We hope that they will not feel the need to become radicalized to belong to a group or to help a "cause greater than themselves" because they will be aware of religion and will have learned about it through education. ]]> 2021-11-16 00:07:05 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1892583180 https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1892603646 The main target of our project is Syrian children in the Beddawi camp. 
We want them to participate in different activities, in group, such as practicing different sports, or manual activities like painting to allow them express their thoughts. We also thought about creating a book with children's testimonies, to have the children write their thoughts, tell their stories, and create a base for other children to realize the dangers of radicalization and how it can happen, as a collection of testimonies to prevent radicalization and to prevent children from falling into it.
We also want the mothers to intervene in our project, but we thought about testing them to verify if they are not radicalized, to avoid harming the child and the project. We believe that mothers can participate in creating a safe place for children, so they have a reference point and do not feel abandoned or lost, and they will feel more free to testimony and to start over and go beyond their past life. Mothers could also encourage children to tell their story, complete them, and help in explaining the context of some situations. ]]> 2021-11-16 00:19:55 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1892603646 https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1894645550 First of all, children will be the first beneficiaries of our project, because the main aim is to avoid them to fall into radicalization, so they will enjoy some physical, manual and psychological activities. Through all these activities, they will discover a life that should live “normal children”, they will be able to make friends, to develop skills, and to free their mind from their past life. We don’t necessarily want them to forgot about it, but to learn from it, to explain what they felt living in a context of constant violence, and to learn how to overcome this life and to rebuild themselves, thanks to psychological support, and life in community. Moreover, children will be able to write their stories and to read others, to make them realize that they are not alone in the process of rebuilding a new life. Furthermore, we will try to find a way to reintegrate these children when they will feel ready, to enroll them in school, high school or college, to register them in sports or artistic clubs if they want to.  
Secondly, mothers will also enjoy support from our project. We want to offer them some psychological support, through open discussion cells for to let these women share their experience, fears, hopes and advices. Our project counts with a reintegration part, helping the mothers to find a job and to be able to raise their children and to pay for accommodation. 
]]> 2021-11-16 16:37:40 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1894645550 https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1898029819 The short term goal would be to make children feel safe in their new place, surrounded by their mother and other children who lived same experiences. We want to free their word, to make them being interesting in testifying and exchanging with other young people, to be aware that they are not alone in the process of rebuilding a new life after living in a constant violence, and to realize that it is possible. We are also expecting them to show a minimum of interest in the organized activities, not necessarily all of them but at least in one sport, one manual activity, or discussion sessions. The short term goal is really to create a new safe place for the child and his mother, so then he can be involved in the program of reconstruction and reintegration, through different classes and activities. ]]> 2021-11-17 21:37:34 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1898029819 https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1898030163 The medium term goal is to have children fully implicated in the camp, into activities. We want them to feel confident, to be independent from their mother, and to have friends, for rebuilding a social circle, far away from arms and violence. Moreover, we expect the children to be ambitious for their future life, counting on the opportunities we will offer them, through various learning and integration activities. We hope they will be dreaming about their new life, creating a stable situation, with a job they really want to achieve. To have children truly involved in activities we will organize, will allow them to have some basic knowledge, knowing English for example, to then be integrated in bigger institutions, such as schools. This would be the main step of their reintegration ]]> 2021-11-17 21:37:49 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1898030163 emmalecontenavarro https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1898145370 Acoording to the UNHCR Lebanon hosts the largest number of Syrian refugees per capita, with a Government estimate of 1.5 million Syrian refugees.
We chose to intervene in Lebanon because the country faced in 2020 a deep economic and finantial crisis, aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the explosion on 4 August 2020 that put Lebanese population, refugees and migrants in a really difficult situation. We chose to act precisely in the Beddawi refugee camp located on a hill some 5 kilometres north-east of Tripoli because recently the camp's population has grown, as a result of the Syria crisis, placing significant strain on infrastructure and UNRWA  (united Nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees in the near east) services. The already vulnerable Syrian migrant population is now in a critical situation. The lack of adequate legal status, the deterioration of already difficult living conditions and tensions with Lebanese society increase their vulnerability.  
The UNHCR argue that the 2020 Vulnerability Assessment of Syrian Refugees found that 89% of Syrian refugee families in Lebanon lived below the extreme poverty line, up from 55% in mid-2019. 
Lebanon is a strategic country for our counter radicalisation program because the poverty and the bad living conditions caused by the finantial crisis may really touch youth of refugees camps and that may encourage them to start a radicalisation process. For example, Syrian families living in extreme poverty do not send their children to school and the lack of education is a factor that encourages radicalisation on young people because it presents itself as their only option. The crisis create negative coping mechanisms such as reducing food intake, school drop-out and child labour and that put young syrian refugess in a really vulnerable situation. That's why it's really important for us to implement our action in Lebanon syrian refugees camps.]]> 2021-11-17 23:23:33 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1898145370 https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1898193300 We have several long-term objectives. Firstly, to ensure that the children we take into care are not targets for radicalisation. The objective is that they learn through the book and that they pass on what they have learned to other children. It is important for us that the children feel understood and that they have the opportunity to pass on what they have learnt, so that the motivation is always high. Of course, we would have to make sure that the children who have learned are well founded by psychological tests at the end of the book and the education period. 
Then, if the project works in this refugee camp, we would like to extend it to other, larger camps. Each camp would then have a reference book and it would be interesting to compare the visions of each camp in order to improve our approach towards the children. 
We would also like to offer the children a future through the education we will provide. Indeed, once they are adults, they will be able to work in a field that will be proposed to them. The aim is to prepare them for the future after having tried to fight against radicalisation in their refugee camp. ]]> 2021-11-18 00:07:22 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1898193300 https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1898217946 To measure the impact of the project we will implement several methods. Firstly, by counting the number of radicalisations in the camp before and after the project. We will also keep a scoreboard with our psychologists to assess the psychological state of the child throughout the project. 
We will collect testimonies on the children who have been able to avoid radicalisation and make them available on our association's website so that the people who invested in the project can in turn read about the impact of our action. ]]> 2021-11-18 00:25:10 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1898217946 emmalecontenavarro https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1898252104 The Za'atari Project is a project lead by artist that programme with syrian refugee children of the Za'atari camp (Jordania) to do workshops focused on art but also on educational topics. Through the creation of murals in their community and in host communities, the children explore social problems, their desire to return to Syria, their dreams for the future and their fate as refugees. They also work on artistic projects that deal with the reduction of tensions and the promotion of social cohesion between different communities. In addition, these children have the opportunity to participate and add their own creativity to murals, bringing colour and life to a desolate environment and spreading messages of hope to local residents.
We really learned on this project. Indeed, with the creation of an educational book on religion for the children made by themselves, our project aims to educate and promote social cohesion, respect for others, tolerance... to the children of the camp. The aim is also to develop creative skills of the children and to freeing their speech. We have decided to take inspiration from the Za'atari project in its method, in fact we have decided to set up a creative participative project but which also has a primary educational goal. Moreover, we also took the idea of creating something material that can be used to educate other children, parents... As the mural will bring messages to the people living in the refugee camp, our book will also be read and shared in the community.

]]> 2021-11-18 00:46:37 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1898252104 https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1898270047 As we have announced, our project will first of all be creative to fight against radicalisation. The children will be asked to participate in the elaboration of a book on the explanation of religions, the tolerance between each one and especially on radicalisation (its explanation, its dangers and the means to get out of it). The children will participate on a voluntary basis but it will be highly recommended. We hope that those who are not decided will be convinced by their peers to participate in the project. 
So it will be done in groups, some will be in charge of the text, others will be in charge of the drawings and others will be in charge of the proposals. We will provide them with the necessary material and as for the pedagogical resources, we will teach them through classes and videos what they need to know about religions, tolerance and radicalisation so that they can create their book on their own with their ideas. 
But before the book project, we will offer them the right to education with teachers of several subjects (maths, languages, history, geography and sport). Children who cannot read or write will be integrated later in the concrete elaboration of the project but will be able to share their ideas with their peers.  
We hope to start working on the book after 6 months of class and learning so that the children have enough knowledge to understand the project. 
This project will be coupled with other group activities such as physical and manual activities in order to develop a team spirit and solidarity within the refugee camp.]]> 2021-11-18 00:57:02 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1898270047 https://padlet.com/emmalecontenavarro/optctu5xijkzu49z/wish/1898329584 - Beddawi-Liban.pdf (o-cr.org)
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