Life Skills and Employment: Refugees Living in Lebanon
This project's parent organization is Coaches Across Continents
It operates in United States
It uses Adapted sports, Football (Soccer), Basketball
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More about Life Skills and Employment: Refugees Living in Lebanon
Across Lebanon refugees face discrimination with lack of opportunities to access quality education and economic growth through employment.
1.5 million Syrians have entered Lebanon since the Syrian crises started, with half of that group being children. In addition to the long-term refugee settlements of Palestinian communities, this has created social isolation and division across the country.
Coaches Across Continents [CAC] and ANERA have developed a strong partnership nationwide to use sport and CAC’s Education Outside the Classroom methodology to provide life skills and employment opportunities for refugees and displaced communities.
Through this project the overriding outcome is to increase social inclusion which transcends race, region and nationality to create a more tolerant and prosperous society.
The results of the successful project have gained refugees employment through NGO’s; increased the prominence of sport being used for social impact across schools and allowed young people [14-24] to access high quality education through sport which they have not accessed for over 2 years.