Concluding of women and youth empowerment program in Tripoli

Al Safadi Foundation concluded yesterday its ‘Socio-Economic Empowerment and Training on Work and Life Skills for Youth in Tripoli’ program, implemented in collaboration with UNESCO Regional Office in Beirut. A ceremony was held on the occasion at ‘Shababuna’ social association center in Suweika, in the presence of the Center’s director, Khaled Hanouf and the program team and trainers. Certificates were distributed to some 65 trainees who completed the vocational and technical workshops specialized in the repair of cell phones and industrial embroidery. It should be noted that the participants have enrolled in  three-month training courses on the various personal and administrative skills, individual and collective empowerment and social awareness, as well as motivation and leadership techniques provided by a team of trained experts from the Safadi Foundation. Speaking at the ceremony, the head of Shababuna Social Development Sector, Samar Bulos, emphasized the significance of the socio-economic approach on which the project is based, particularly in terms of empowerment of the least advantaged community members, like young people and women, in marginalized neighborhoods of Old Tripoli. Such approach, she maintained, is in line with the main objectives of the Safadi Foundation in the field of sustainable development. (Al Mustaqbal, June 14, 2016)