ABOUT - Dawaer Foundation

ABOUT DAWAER

Dawaer Foundation is a nongovernmental, nonprofit and nonpartisan organization established in 2015 by a team of dedicated activists who build on their extensive and diverse experience to achieve a democratic peaceful society, respectful of human rights.

OUR VISION

Dawaer envisions a society where youth and children are valued, resilient and protected from violence and abuse whilst supported to reach their goals and thrive.

MISSION

Dawaer is committed to strengthen the resilience of children and youth and inspire their independent thinking and critical analysis to ensure their protection from violence to become agents of change. To pursue its mission, Dawaer focuses its programming to enhance social stability and inclusion among and between communities, implement protection mechanisms targeting children and youth and lead on educational activities, mental health interventions and media literacy programs.

OUR OBJECTIVES

Dawaer is committed to:

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

Dawaer adopts, in all its interventions, an interactive and human rights-based approach, in addition to conflict and gender sensitivity to ensure inclusion of all target groups. Through our collaborative approach, broad outreach and networks with the Ministry of Social Affairs, civil society organizations, educational institutions, local governments, key stakeholders and communities at large, Dawaer implements projects focusing on:

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.