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OUR VISION
MISSION
Dawaer is committed to increasing the resilience of children and youth through promoting their rights and empowering them and mobilizing their critical thinking to become responsible global citizens who are capable of expressing themselves freely and be agents of change.
Dawaer works with educational institutions, families and communities to enhance child and youth rights and freedom of expression and protect youth from violence. Dawaer also works with decision makers to lobby for laws that enhance youth and human rights.
OUR VALUES

OUR OBJECTIVES
- Empowering youth to build peace and building their resilience against hate speech
- Empowering youth to become central actors and key multipliers in preventing, reporting and critically responding to violent and discriminatory narratives
- Enhance caregivers’ capacity to ensure better child physical, mental, moral and social development
- Enhance media literacy among children and youth
- Create a mojo community in Lebanon
- Enhance community social cohesion.
DAWAER TEAM
Mrs. Rania Zaatari is a founding member of “Dawaer”, a Lebanese NGO committed to increasing the resilience of children and youth. Mrs. Zaataria has an international master's degree in business administration (MBA), a BS in Social Health and community development, a Diploma in Community Health and a European Diploma in Mediation & Negotiation. Mrs. Zaatari has been an environmental activist for several years. She has a long experience in planning and launching social and health campaigns, designing and implementing citizenship programs and non-curricular activities with children and youth. Mrs. Zaatari worked as a consultant for different local and International organization. She was a social health services manager in a foundation for 17 years. Currently, she is a communal Health Bureau Manager, a university Instructor and a National surveyor for the on-site surveys of the Primary Healthcare Accreditation.

RANIA ZAATARI
Founding Member
Rouba Abo Ammo is a founding member of “Dawaer”, a Lebanese NGO committed to increasing the resilience of children and youth. Rouba has a BA in journalism. During the last 13 years, she worked in several Lebanese and Arab newspapers and websites, and covered different social issues on child rights and human rights and justice, in addition to other international political issues. In addition, she worked as a media consultant for different local and International organizations. Currently, she is a trainer on Social Media, Media Literacy and Mobile Journalism. Also, she started producing mobile videos which are published in an Arab media website, in addition to other social media platforms.

ROUBA ABO AMMO
Founding Member
Lama El-Awad is a founding member of “Dawaer”, a Lebanese NGO committed to increasing the resilience of children and youth. Lama has a master’s degree in environmental management and has been an activist striving for the achievement of environmental and civil rights in Lebanon. Currently, she is a trainer on Child rights and peace building and advocates for issues related to human rights, gender, diversity and peace and has contributed to the launching of peace building units at the municipal level and to several campaigns aiming at influencing public policies such as the “Campaign against Child Marriage”, the “Petition and Complaint” campaign and the reform of the civic education curriculum in Lebanon.

LAMA EL AWAD
Founding Member
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