Dignity for displaced women and girls in Lebanon

Background during and after the implementation of the project; Big concerns arise about the needs of the refugees coming from Syria and the Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon particularly after the UNRWA decision to reduce the services for the Palestinian particularly in Education. How to meet these needs and for how long.  The global concerns are related to the humanitarian, economic and social aspects of the Syrian crises, and focus on the people inside Syria and the around four million Syrians and Palestine refugees who have been displaced to neighboring countries such as Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey. On top, there is the concern of the continuous mobility of displaced people as a consequence of the unrelenting unstable conditions. The situation of Palestine and Syrian refugees from Syria, which implicates the situation of the already vulnerable Palestine refugees in Lebanon.  This instability is leading to changeable needs, and accordingly the variation of prioritizing these needs should be continuously updated. This is needed in order to ensure that poor and vulnerable individuals having access to their basic services, At the same time, special attention paid to women and adolescent girls  who are most vulnerable and often the first victims of any crisis. It is worthy to note that, UNRWA stopped paying the renting subsidies, and reducing the cash assistance in a range of 27 USD per individual per month,  which is nothing according to the international standards which confirm the minimum coverage ensuring that shelter, hygiene, food, clothes, education and basic needs are totally covered. This lead that the pregnant women and the new born babies have no chance to benefit from the cash assistance.   Therefore, and according to the focus groups conducted with women, the household headed families of the women and girls cant afford to buy their needed items, as they are looking to provide the basic needs of the whole family members to be survived.

Naba’a Achievements;

During the last period, Naba’a responded to the main needs for the most vulnerable and marginalized groups, particularly women and girls as the followings;

-          Monthly reproductive and psychosocial health outreach sessions conducted by the psychosocial and health professionals

-          Implemented a breast cancer campaign by referring around 200 women who are at risk of breast cancer for the diagnostic test in coordination with the accredited primary health care.

-          Implementing a psychosocial individual sessions for the more than 50 women and girls whom are exposed to violence and abuse

-          Implementing Accelerating learning program for the adolescent girls whom are dropped out of school

-          Holding 10 outreach activities and trips for the children including females and their parents to release their stress and giving them opportunity to express their feelings and to go outside the camps.

Case Study for one female child who is in need of psychosocial support;

Mother’s name: Sawsan

Members of family : 4 girls without the mother

The order in the family : the last one (from the mother)

The step mother and three children live with the family

Address: al sifsaf district

Summary about the life the child:

The child was living in  a secure situation with her family in Syria till the father married from another women . she always hearing what her mother say  about the father, in addition she is living in the whole problems occurred between the mother and the father.  Therefore, the girl become very nervous and started to hate her father, knowing that, the father with the his new wife decided to live together with the father’s family, in the same house due to the difficult economic situation, this lead the girl to became impolite and hating more his father, she hates her brothers and created many problems between the mother and the step mother.

The economic situation:

Very bad situation and this is the reason for gathering the two families together

The social situation:

It is very bad , each member in the family blame the other about any problem happened and she always splits to the mother what her brothers do , also it is noticeable that the child has no friend either from neighbors or from relatives side since her mother prevents her to go out alone because  of the security situation

The Relation with the family:

She is very close to her mother and don’t let anyone talk about her negatively although she admit that her mother love her eldest sister more than her.

The relation with the father

After his traveling she missed him very much and now she loves him and consider him as a friend

The relation from the brother :

She loves her brother from her mother while the others from the stepmother she hates them and don’t want to live with them because they are trouble maker,

The problem:

The child has flurry in the relation with the family she don’t know how to deal with her father and how to love and deal with her bother she hates them and make problems regularly with them, and she become aggressive.

Also it is noticeable   that she don’t have a male friends because the remember her by her brothers.

The aim of the case

Reducing her nervousness and aggressive of the child and integrate her in the activities to become more helpful and flexible

Recommendations :

-          Continue the listening sessions with the child

-          Continue  in integrating her in different activities

-          Regular home visits