Middle East

Lebanon

Psychosocial support for Palestinian refugee children and Dom children

Terre des hommes (Tdh) provides vital psychosocial help to the children of Palestinian refugees and of the Dom community who are in a very precarious situation in Lebanon.

Help for refugees

Tdh works in 3 Palestinian refugees’ camps and 12 Palestinian refugees’ gatherings in the South of Lebanon to provide a protective environment for the extremely vulnerable children. Lebanon has not signed the United Nations Convention on Refugees, and the refugees therefore have very few rights and are faced with huge problems accessing appropriate assistance, particularly in the psychological field. Through case management, youth micro projects and the participation of the community and various stakeholders, Tdh is building a very much needed child protection system.

Help for marginalized communities

Tdh conducted an action-oriented research on the Dom community, a very marginalized Lebanese community. The Dom are an ethnic minority group who live in many countries of the Middle East, including Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq. In general, Dom communities are either isolated from major dwellings or located near poor, marginalized areas, and their children are facing risks in terms of access to basic services (education, health) or living conditions (child labor, poor accommodations…). Tdh developed a child protection project to meet the needs of their children in 8 sites in the South of Lebanon.

Centered at 35.862285 33.854721 7

Places of intervention : Tyre

Projects : Humanitarian crises and armed conflicts

In joint cooperation with : Swiss Solidarity, AECID

Delegate : Karine Milhorgne

Expatriate staff : 2

National staff : 27

Budget : 800'000 CHF

Gallery

Latest News

28 Jul 2011 • Street children Lebanon
The Dom People and their Children in Lebanon

The Terre des hommes delegation in Lebanon and Insan Association’s report seeks to challenge such collective blindness and looks at the Dom people through humanitarian lenses. The research that informs the content of this report is the first of its kind, not only in Lebanon, b... Read more
29 Apr 2011 • Humanitarian crises Syria - Jordan, Egypt, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Various, Lebanon, Morocco
North Africa and the Middle East: The European Union recognises the role of Youth in the reform movement

On April 15, the Commissioner Fule, responsible for the EC Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, met with a delegation of NGOs, including Terre des Hommes. He took the opportunity to stress that their preoccupations and the points raised in the NGOs Statement were in line with... Read more

Side Notes

Children’s situation

50,000 Iraqi and 40,000 Palestinians refugees live in Lebanon
Refugee children (aged 8-15) work for 5 to 7 USD per week

Results 2010

In Beirut, the project of psychosocial support for Iraqi refugees continued for a further year. 75 people received aid from psychologists and 313 families were helped.

For the second year, Tdh continued its work in the camps for Palestinian refugees in South Lebanon. The camp authorities renewed their confidence in Tdh, which consolidated the collaboration. 531 families and 666 youngsters were looked after by our teams.

Tdh also worked with 43 particularly vulnerable children who needed specialised monitoring.

70 young people set up small community projects and 121 employees of local NGOs received training on the “management and transformation of conflicts”.

Testimonial

Although the Committee for the Rights of the Child has called upon Lebanon to combat discrimination against refugee children, many are still suffering and have to support their families from a very early age on, like Nesrine and Mahamad.

- Nesrine, Mahamad, Tdh beneficiaries in Lebanon