Our contribution to the development of the younger generation in Jordan does not stop: the coming months will see us active in an intervention that continues to focus on education and children's rights.
'Madrasati Ahla' (My Most Beautiful School) is a project, financed by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), which will involve three schools in the governorate of Irbid, in the north of the country, for the next few months, with a comprehensive approach of structural rehabilitation of the buildings, training for teachers and psychosocial and learning support for the childrenə.
In addition to bringing spaces up to health and safety standards, the schools will see the removal of architectural barriers to facilitate access for studentsə, teachers and staff with disabilities, creating a more welcoming and inclusive environment for every member of the school community.
An intervention that will be accompanied by training courses for school teachers on psychosocial pathologies and the inclusion of children with disabilities within the small school community.
Teachers will also be trained on reducing violence at school, an issue very much present in the country, which we want to address not only to make schools safer environments, but to protect Jordanian and Syrianə children from dropping out of school.
Bullying and violence at school are in fact among the biggest causes of drop-outs; to prevent them, in this project we will also involve families and the whole community through a radio awareness campaign on child protection.
Our collaboration with Lina Khalifeh, Jordanian activist and founder of SheFighter, the first centre for women's self-defence in the Middle East, with whom we have been working since 2016, continues. Together with her and her staff, we will organise new self-defence courses, aimed at teachers and girls, which will be accompanied by the usual psychosocial support for the development of inner strength and self-confidence.
Finally, home school support courses will be launched, aimed at accompanying them in learning and carrying out their daily tasks.
To stand by those at risk of dropping out, but also to help those who have been left out of formal education - often because they are refugees and have fled war - and have the right to reintegrate.
Building a better future for all, starting with the new generations.
