ALPHA Live!: April 2013

Sunday 7 April 2013

Get ready for the 7th ALPHA Spring Kermess!

Get your agenda...ALPHA and its partners are happy to invite you at the 7th Spring Kermess which will be held on April 28th, 2013 at the School of the Liberation - Soultanieh (South Lebanon)
With more than 2000 children last year we expect to even do better in 2013...For that we prepared you a festival of activities :
Magic show, shows of the lebanese army and of the UNIFIL troops, activities around books and ALPHA bibliobus, games and sport!
Hope to see you there...

Best,

ALPHA team

Thursday 4 April 2013

We missed you...

Long Time no see!

Since we jumped into this new year we didn't get back to you and we are honestly sorry! Promise ...We will fix this But this doesn't mean that we didn't think about you and that were not working ....

We are enthusiastic to announce that ALPHA developed a new initiative that will be implemented in Beirut area ... [Bey]Box project!

[Bey]Box project | Urban participatory workshops is about creating a practical platform on which the opportunity for collective [re]thinking of common urban spaces can take place: professionals and citizens together. Urban walks, Urban Cafe, Urban participatory workshops....all the tools to better understand our direct environment and create a collective vision of another Beirut.

So keep posted and let's jump together into that new challenge!

Best,

ALPHA team

ALPHA Vision

“To represent high-quality fibers of the development sector, to weave a carpet of sustainable change” (Albert Abi Azar)

ALPHA works towards a society in which all can live together peacefully; in which…
… social fairness creates sustainable links
… every effort contributes to the removal of significant obstructions to change
… compromises are legitimate, measured and pragmatic
… processes are child-centered
… education is the means to increase responsibility towards one another and to make communities more aware in a sustainable way

ALPHA Mission

To increase communities’ awareness on the Convention of the Right of the Child
To give children and parents access to concrete integration tools in regards to their social, cultural, physical and educational environment

To work towards the integration of all identified opposites such as: War/Peace, Child/Child, Child/Parent, Teacher/Student, Confession/Confession, Boys/Girls, Individual/Group,
Generation/Generation, Village/Village

To allow all participants (children, parents, ALPHA Team and the community by and large) to fully benefit from the activities of the 5 centers

ALPHA Action Principles - “Artisans of social change among others”

Acting as artisans
- Your problems are ours
- Small but beautiful actions
- A service nobody else can provide
- Faces & names
- Knowledge on how to create from all kinds of material

Acting for change
- Confidence & Partnership: ALPHA events in Tebnine could not take place without our 100 volunteers force rooted in the community.
- Engagement & Continuity: in 2012, ALPHA continues to help children in the South of Lebanon, within a region where conflict is still part of the daily life.
- Solidarity, Conviviality & Responsibility: in 2006, ALPHA managed to put in place a coherent needs assessment in 17 villages of the South for the organization of food distribution, relying on the Lebanese “aouni” system.
- Emergency & Sustainability: in case of security incidents, ALPHA collaborates with the Lebanese Red Cross and Civil Defense units, as well as the local social centers in order to protect children.
- Plurality & Openness: ALPHA’s team is strong because it relies on a fruitful exchange between men/ women, Christian/ Muslim, Palestinian/ Lebanese, integrating harmoniously into the community.
- Creativity & Clear Thinking: ALPHA’s activities are adapted to the peculiar, local environment, with a constant attention for the safety of children.

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Sunday 7 April 2013

Get ready for the 7th ALPHA Spring Kermess!

Thursday 4 April 2013

We missed you...

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