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Butterfly Project to empower refugee girls in Lebanon
20-7-2018
Lebanese student at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, Firyal Birjawi, launched her humanitarian initiative the BetterFly Camp for which she was awarded the Lang Opportunity Scholarship to be funded as one of the best proposed projects by university students. The programme aims at raising awareness among refugee girls and motivate them to become pioneers of change in their own communities. The undertaking implemented in partnership with Smart Center kicked off in July 28 over a period of six weeks, and covers diverse educational and psychosocial support activities targeting 30 underprivileged adolescent girls from Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon, in addition to awareness sessions for their parents. Elucidating her project, Birjawi said participants were selected from Syrian and Palestinian refugee girls living in camps who at the start of the project have filled out questionnaires which showed that only 20 percent of them knew their rights, two thirds objected to the idea of sharing housework between the husband and wife and that half of the respondents believe the woman is not a key decision maker in matters related to marriage and reproduction. Birjawi pointed out that the project also seeks to spread awareness on sexual violence, sexual and reproductive health as well as enhancement of the beneficiaries’ physical and psychological safety. (Al Mustaqbal, July 20, 2018)
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