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- Rassemblement des ONGs
pour les droits de l’enfant
- Défense des
enfants international (DEI) Liban
The Lebanese Union for Child Welfare
Address:
Hamra St., Rbez Bldg., Ground floor.
Tel/fax: 01 345150
Founded
in 1949 and registered under the number 585/AD, the Lebanese Union
for ChildWelfare was initially affiliated to the International
Union for Child Welfare. First of its kind in the Arab world, its
activities are spread through out the Lebanese territory.
Main
Objectives
- To implement
the Convention on the Rights of the Child ratified by Lebanon in
1991.
- To implement
the Lebanese laws concerning children
- To implement
the Charter on the Rights of the Arab child
- To conduct
research and studies on the state of the child in Lebanon
- To disseminate
the principles, resolutions and recommendations adopted at
international and regional conferences.
- To help NGOs,
members of the Union, in their activities
Activities
- Organizing
training courses, workshops, conferences on the state of
children, and the promotion of their rights
Publications
For all Arabic publications, please refer to
The Lebanese Union for Child Welfare (Arabic)
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The Lebanese Association for the Protection of Juvenile
Delinquents
P.O.
Box: 116/2423
Tel/fax: 01 427973
Since
its foundation in 1939 under decree no 29/E.B., this association
has been committed to providing effective answers to the many
problems encountered by juvenild delinquents. Its activities are
devined by decree-law no 119, September 16, 1983, as amended by
law no 182, December 22, 1992.
Main
objectives
- To take
appropriate prevention and control measures for delinquents
under 12 years old
- To ensure
follow-up investigation on how delinquents with prison sentences
are admitted, confined, released and transferred to their
communities
- To issue
specific reports on deention conditions liable to necessary
changes
- To ensure
proper counselling for a delinquent’s parents or guardian
Activities
- Providing
institutions or foster homes ensuring the placement of formerly
sentenced juvenile delinquents with necessary help and support
- Setting up
surveillance and follow-up programs for paroled delinquents and
subsequently issue appropriate reports for legal examination
- Organizing
rehabilitation, counselling, vocational training and treatment
programs for delinquents
- Providing
proper health services for the treatment of juvenile delinquents
Publications
- For all Arabic
publications please refer to The Lebanese Association for
the Protection of Juvenile Delinquents (Arabic)
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The Lebanese Child Home Association (AFEL)
Tel/fax: 01 481690 - 01494411
This non-governmental organization was founded
in 1976 at the beginning of the war in Lebanon. Its purpose is to
serve orphaned children or social cases and their families. AFEL
is a lay, non-political and non-confessional organization.
Authorized in 1977, it has been declared of public interest by the
Lebanese government in 1987 by decree no 3872
Main objectives
- Take care of needy children and children with social problems
- Ensure the education and training of the children with social
problems
- Help the children in their social and economic rehabilitation
- Contribute to the well-being and development of the child and
his family in their environment and to the rehabilitation of the
family
Activities
- Providing socioeducational services to children from families
with social problems such as drugs, alcoholism and child abuse
- Establishing centers that provide secure and stimulating
environment for pre-deliquent children
- Organizing pre-professional workshops, manual and artistici
workshops as well as animation programs for children
- Providing children not attending school, with remedial
courses for at least one academic year
Publications
- For all Arabic publications, please refer to The Lebanese
Child Home Association (Arabic)
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The National Institution of Social Care & Vocational
Training
Address:
Abu Shaker - Essaha Bldg. 3rd floor
P.O. Box: 135/621
Tel/fax:
01 816115 - 1704831
This
institution was established in 1976 and registered under the
number 135/AD, mainly through the initiative of the Secretariat of
the General Union of Palestinian Women.
Main
objectives
- To help needy
families by providing monthly financial support, through a
special sponsorship program
- To provide
cultural, recreational, educational and health services for
children and their families, through special programs directed
to women and youth
- To focus on
preserving the Palestinian identity by reviving Palestinian
culture and heritage
Activities
- Establishing
centers inside Palestinian camps
- Providing
educational and cultural activities to children living within
the camps
- Providing
vocational training to women and the youth
- Establishing
dental clinics, general poly-clinic and kindergartens
Publications
- For all Arabic
publications please refer to The National Institution of Social
Care & Vocational Training (Arabic)
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