This youth initiative was launched by a group of engineering faculties’ graduates and undergraduate students (in electricity, mechanics, electronics and computer science), with support from the SSSD team in Banias and UNHCR.
The initiative aimed to convey notions of applied popular science by executing some simple technical applications. It targeted all schoolchildren in Banias and its rural areas, especially children who showed keen interest and are skilled in electromechanical device making, so they could demonstrate their talents.
A final exhibition of the students’ models was held at the Cultural Centre in Banias on 27-28 December 2017 as a result of a three-month arduous training.

Based on our belief in nurturing a “culture of giving” in society, and in order to protect children from fierce winter cold, the SSSD team in Tartous, in cooperation with UNHCR, launched a CBI entitled To Give Is to Love.

The initiative aimed to use the skills of women who attended the Wool Knitting and Crochet course within the Hear-My-Heart Programme, and who had also come up with the idea, by making scarfs for children, both IDPs and locals.

 The scarfs were distributed in the SSSD Community Centre in Banias (Beit al-Yasmin) and al-Qreir School on 25/1/2018, to be used by more than 250 girls and boys.

Since learning is basically the inalienable right of all, and in view of our goal to remove all obstacles that hinder the integral growth and social integration of children with specific needs, the SSSD team, in cooperation with UNHCR, organized a community-based initiative entitled Our Children.

The initiative was proposed by a group of mothers and aimed to improve the capacity of their CwSN to express themselves and to achieve the goals of the Portage Programme in improving the children’s physical, intellectual and cognitive abilities. 

To that effect, the mothers made a variety of tools and materials that would help their children and other CwSN at al-Rajaa Charity and My Child and I and Basma centres.

Implementation was completed on 18/12/2017 to benfit more than 50 CwSN.

Voice of peace is a Grand community-based initiative which has been implemented by a group of Syrian youth with the support of the Syrian society for social development team in Baniyas  and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

The initiative targeted all the Baniyas people who love art and music, especially the IDPs families, who lack the spaces of joy, entertainment, culture and music, as well as children and adults with special needs. The initiative allowed them to show their musical talents and to appear on stage for the first time by forming a coral named “ Wama “

The closing ceremony of the initiative was held on Saturday 13/1/2018 at the cultural center in Baniyas to be the result of the four-month training and efforts in the initiative. The ceremony was the starting point of the Coral “ Wama “  and thereby the coral will form the core of a new musical band in Baniyas ,