Success Stories of SHAHD Association

Moasb's Story

Remedial education can help struggling learners shore up their basic skills. This extra support can help them catch up to their peers. And sometimes, if a student’s gaps in learning aren’t related to a disability, it can eliminate the need for referral to special education where it can catch up the basic skills more easily. On the other hand, Psychosocial support helps individuals and communities to heal the psychological wounds and rebuild social structures after an emergency or a critical event. It can help change people into active survivors rather than passive victims.

SHAHD as a non-governmental Association established in Lebanon in 2016 aiming to “A happy, healthy and creative child whose rights are protected in a society built on respect for dignity, justice and equity for l”.

SHAHD with cooperation with TDH Italy and ARCPA and with the support of UNICEF and BMZ starts a project titled “Improving access to inclusive education and learning support programs for all children living in Palestinian camps and gatherings of Lebanon”. As a part of this project many children have the opportunity to get better learning and psychosocial support.

Mosab Sobhi Ghorli, 14 years old Lebanese child whose mother is Palesntian. He was a normal child as the other children registered in SHAHD association. During his stay at SHAHD, he was receiving the educational and psychosocial support activities. In 2017, his parents faced several problems, that made the family relations to be hesitant. As a result, he was effected by this problem psychologically, ending in a weak behavior in his educational level. So he was a victim as a result of the mother, and the father conflict. He became sad, hesitant, and Several times, he thought ending his life to commit a suicide, as a way to solve his family problems.

Mrs. Salam Sehweil, the PSS specialist, at SHAHD association, noticed the difference in Mosab’s behavior so that he became violent with his friends, shy and isolated during the activities in SHAHD Association.

Figure 1: Mosab is Isolated

At that time, Mrs. Salam contacted with his mother to assess the case, and to describe the causes of his behavior. The mother said that, Mosab was affected by the conflict happening between the mother and the father. She said that, at home he kept breaking glasses, and kept screaming.

The PSS specialist, the coordinator of SHAHD association with the cooperation of Najda psychologist designed an individual plan to support Mosab on the psychosocial and educational level on the bases of the two running projects “Improving access to inclusive education and learning support programs for all children living in Palestinian camps and gatherings of Lebanon”, and “Community Protection and Empowerment: COPE”.

Besides, Mosab took a special psychological programs with Faten Zeid Aldein, the psychological specialist at AL Najda Association.

Besides the FPSS sessions and special lessons (especially in English) that is supported by UNICEF and implemented in the cooperation of TDH and ARCPA, Mosab enrolled in Youth at Risk and Life Skills Programs as well as in educational classes that are supported by the same NGOs and organizations mentioned above.

After several sessions, Mosab psychological situation appeared to be improved, and it was vivid that he started struggling to succeed by saying “I want to pass all my problems to prove I am a good and a successful person, I want to be an engineer, and I am working on that”. Recently, at school his grades improved, and all the teachers were very happy on what he became.

Figure 2: Mosab is Participating in Life Skills Sessions.

Now Mosab is the first participant in every activity SHAHD association makes, his social life improved, and he is never being isolated.

Figure 3: Mosab is participating in SHAHD Activities