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Vocational Training Exhibition

 

As a first step for each woman to begin her career in the profession she has learned, the Syrian Society for Social Development (SSSD), in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has organized a vocational training exhibition within the GBV programme at Aman Center.

The exhibition was a conclusion of the women's training in crochet, embroidery and cleaning industry carried out by SSSD. The women participated in the preparation of and invitation to the exhibition, in cooperation with SSSD’s team. They also had the chance to present their work to the attenders, including the beneficiaries’ families and several residents in the neighborhood surrounding the safe space.

I’m Still Young, Wait Until I Grow Up

With the aim of achieving local community awareness on the dangers and negative social/health impacts of early marriage, the Syrian Society for Social Development Team, in partnership with the UNFPA, carried out a campaign entitled “I’m still young, wait until I grow up” at the Women and Girls Safe Space (WGSS) in Hama. The five-day campaign was divided into two sections. The first section lasted three days.

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The first day took place at the WGSS, where an open discussion was held on amendments to the Personal Status Law regarding early marriage in the presence of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent.

On the second day, a questionnaire on early marriage opinion was conducted by the center’s mobile team at Ibn Rushd Street in Hama.

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The third day was at the textile factory, where a sketch on early marriage was performed. After the sketch ended, we discussed with the workers at the factory their opinions and presented some health information on the risks of early marriage.

As for the second section, it lasted two days. The first day was divided into two parts. The first part was conducted at the WGSS in Hama, where we began by showing a sketch on early marriage and later on had a discussion with the women about the sketch.

 

Then, we presented a reportage showing people’s opinions on early marriage where the questionnaire was conducted. The second part was held in Qamhaneh and also included a sketch on early marriage as well as a video showing the consequences, negative impacts of early marriage and the appropriate age to get married.

Regarding the second day, it was conducted in Maardess with the presence of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, which participated in the discussion on amendments to the Personal Status Law related to early marriage.

The campaign was concluded by forming a dress and writing statements and opinions by attendees about early marriage.

 

Training on Psychosocial Intervention through Puppetry

A training on Psychosocial Intervention through Puppetry was conducted in Masyaf on May 1, 2019 and attended by 25 trainees, working mostly with children and adolescents.


The training aimed at introducing various types of drama games and Applied Drama and Theatre (ADT) models and methodologies. More specifically, games and methods were chosen so as to help adolescents restructure their memories and past experiences and seize opportunities to explore and find possible solutions for current problems.
The trainees were given the chance to apply in a safe space the drama exercises and games they had learnt.

This practical aspect of the training will certainly enable them to understand the course that an adolescent could possibly take during actual intervention. Additionally, the training also focused on the theoretical basis of those exercises—namely, the five-phase model of drama therapy sessions, the complex circle model and the growth and developmental EPR model (Embodiment-Projection-Role).

 

For a better life

Iman , a 45-year-old mother of seven children and a provider for her family because of her husband physical disability due to age-related diseases of clotting and saccharin, this made him bedridden and suffering from many physical ulcers, the family fled from Soran to Idlib because of the war and returned when civilians were allowed to enter their houses to find her house destroyed. She lived in her sister's house after renovating herself, and she was exposed to many accidents during the restoration. The house lacked any basic necessities of life. She and her children suffered a lot of water transfer from a remote location because there was no reservoir or well nearby.
She visited SSSD community center in Soran and registered for a water tank and air mattresses for her sick husband. The volunteers visited her, met the family by seeing the children moving the water in the winter from a well away from home to put it in drums and open containers, use it for drink and food and for her sick husband and he is lying all day long.
After a short period of delivery of the tank and the air mattress, Iman expressed her gratitude and happiness for the alleviation of the suffering and that the exposure of her children to diseases due to open water and colds during the transfer of water will be much less.

UNHCR

The biggest help

Sana, 20 years old, living with her parents in the city of Hama suffers from the birth of paralysis of quadrilateral spasmodic partial upper and full lower limb, she has been under several operations, but could not walk and never went out of the house which caused her psychological pressure, we know her condition through the ORVs of the Syrian Society for Social Development, and they registered her for medical assistance.
After a short period, she was served with a wheelchair to help her move inside and outside the house. She began to rely on herself to move as much as possible. She even participated in the vocational training of the handicrafts that SSSD also provides and now she is coming to SSSD center and see it as her second home, and the biggest help in her life.

UNHCR

Your care made us happy

Mrs. Rawda is a resident of the village of Jousa in the governorate of Hama. She is a widow and has seven children who have been displaced more than once. The house was stolen during their displacement and they were not present in the area. During the visit of the ORVs to them, they monitored the great suffering in washing clothes for her children, especially that three of them are still really young,
She said, "I have seven children. I work in the land to secure my child after the death of their father. I had a small washing machine, and it was stolen. I did not consider it a big loss till after I have been suffering from eczema and having the pain from the manual washing where I became forced to work for even more hours to cover my family's expenses and my medicine expenses.
The Syrian Society for Social Development team visited us at home and saw how much we need the washing machine, and after a period, they contacted with me and we got the washing machine. I only thank the Syrian Society for Social Development for what they gave me and my family, Where I no longer need to spend money on medicines and now I spending money only on my children, and my children's clothes came back as they were clean before. "

UNHCR

Modern technology and smart devices

Modern technology and smart devices are the necessities of modern life, but the addiction to their use causes many negative effects. Therefore, the Syrian Society for Social Development team in cooperation with the UNHCR helda session to protect the childrenand the youth group in Aqrab / Masyaf– Hama.
They started talking with the youth about the disadvantages of Smart devices while presenting a vvideo talking about the subject and discussing it with them, and then they divided the adolescents into two groups and asked the first group to write positive uses of smart devices and the second group to write the disadvantages based on what appeared to them through the video and the disadvantages mentioned by adolescents likemoving away from reading , isolation and damage of the eye.

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