Our Current Project:

Individual Tutoring Project

HUMANSERVE is partnering with Riverbend Reaching Out to Community and Kids Society (Riverbend ROCKS) to provide a two day/week, thirty week tutoring program that addresses learning gaps, strengthens study skills, and reinforces engagement and attachment to schools.

The Individual Tutoring Program will target vunderable children in Grades 1 – 4, and will be facilitated by four paid tutors . Each tutor will support up to 4 children. The tutoring sessions will be offered at adjacent community schools during the months of October to May.

Total Alberta-Based Project Expenditures:

HSI Funds: $16,840.00

 

Kindergarten & Health Education for Syrian Refugees, Year V

Project Objectives:

To improve the conditions of refugee children from Syria living in Lebanon in terms of education and psycho-sociological welfare through a special kindergarten education program and additional health/hygiene education sessions.

Activities:

Kindergarten program with a special focus on psycho-social activities for 100 children, from 4 to 6 years of age. The program will run for 9 months, from September 2022 to May 2023.

9 puppet shows (one per month) on the themes of health, social inclusion of children with disabilities and hygiene promotion. The plays will be put on for 600 children, under 18 years of age.

Purposes, Goals and Expected Results:

The Need for this Project:

Syrian refugees are finding it difficult to send their children to schools in Lebanon for various reasons:

• The Lebanese government announced the possibility of accepting children at public schools but spaces are limited and therefore Syrian parents can’t find places for their children at registration time. Less than 10% of the families were able to register their children at the Lebanese official schools last year.
• The curriculum in Syria is quite different from the Lebanese curriculum and therefore the Syrian children are not able to seamlessly attend Lebanese schools, especially at the elementary level.
• Private schools in Lebanon are very expensive and are beyond the capacities of the refugee’s families to pay the fees.
• To-date, no kindergartens have been registering children from Syria, except for one new kindergarten established in the North and Bekaa for the benefit of the refugees.

As a result, most of the families have identified the issue of education for their children as a priority to be targeted, since they are kept at home for the whole day and they are getting disengaged from the education atmosphere.

Total Overseas Project Expenditures:

HSI Funds: US$27,000.00

 

 

Our Past Projects:

 

Since 1993, HSI has contributed $836,445.00 to our projects and we have an additional $552,378.00 in matching grants, for a total of:

$1,388,823.00 to September, 2022

The projects listed below were made possible by generous contributions from private community-based donations and with matching grants from the International Development Program of the Wild Rose Foundation, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), and the International Development and Research Centre (IDRC - Federal).

 

1996 to the Present: HSI

 

1993 - 1996: Medical Aid for Palestine Regional Office