ABOUT DAWAER
OUR VISION
MISSION
OUR OBJECTIVES
- Empowering youth with the tools and skills to lead change in their communities and become key multipliers in preventing, detecting, reporting and responding to violent and discriminatory narratives.
- Promoting media literacy among children and youth to become wiser consumers of media as well as responsible producers of their own media content, and combat hate speech and fake news.
- Strengthening child protection at family and community level through creating and promoting preventive measures to protect children from situations of vulnerability, risk and abuse.
- Raising public awareness on child rights, protection and vulnerabilities of children and families, and providing guidance on available child protection services, schemes and structures at all levels.
- Fostering social stability and cohesion through developing the capacities of local communities, with particular emphasis on youth and children, to understand local conflict dynamics and develop local solutions to respond to conflict and hate speech.
OUR APPROACH
- Enhancing social cohesion and stability.
- Empowering youth and children and enhancing their critical thinking to respond to and combat violence.
- Improving mental health and creating safe spaces.
- Developing caregivers’ capacity to ensure better physical, mental, moral and social child development.
OUR VALUES
- Equity
- Justice
- Inclusiveness
- Tolerance
- Diversity
DAWAER TEAM
Mrs. Rania Zaatari has an international master's degree in business administration (MBA), a BS in Social Health and community development, a Diploma in Community Health, a European Diploma in Mediation & Negotiation and a Diploma in development and organization of Mental Health Services. She has extensive experience in planning and launching social and health campaigns and designing and implementing citizenship programs. Rania has previously worked as a consultant for various local and international organizations and is currently a Health Bureau Director, a university instructor, a trainer, and a national surveyor for the on-site surveys of the Primary Healthcare Accreditation.
RANIA ZAATARI
Founding Member
Rouba Abo Ammo has a BA in Journalism. Throughout the past 16 years, Rouba has worked in diverse Lebanese and Arab newspapers and websites covering various social themes on child and human rights and justice, in addition to other international political subjects. In addition, she worked as a media consultant for local and international organizations. Rouba is currently a trainer on media literacy, hate speech, and mobile journalism.
ROUBA ABO AMMO
Founding Member
Lama El Awad has a master’s degree in environmental management and is an activist striving for the achievement of environmental and civil rights in Lebanon. She is currently a trainer on child rights and peacebuilding and advocates for causes related to human rights, gender equity, diversity, and peace. She has contributed to the launching of peacebuilding units at the municipal level and to campaigns aiming at influencing public policies such as the reform of the civic education curriculum in Lebanon and ending child marriage.
LAMA EL AWAD
Founding Member