Spring news - Month of March

* Woman's and Mum's Day - 16th of March 2012 *

On the 16th March of 2012, the ALPHA team in cooperation with Tebnine Municipality and UNIFIL contingents from various countries (Malaysia, Ireland, Korea, France, Turkey, etc…) will celebrate the Women Day as well as the Mothers’ Day in Tebnine library. The children of our 5 centers will show for their Mums, food & juices will be offered and handmade souvenirs from kids will be gifted to women & mums. Five private schools are also participating to the ceremony and 250 women are expected to join for this day. All ALPHA team would like to invite you to join and to party with us in Tebnine. Personal invitations will be sent to all women and mums of Tebnine, as well as women and mums of the UNIFIL contingents. So if you are interested, send us a mail to get in touch, you are most welcome : the more, the merrier !

ALPHA animators preparing for training

Women of ALPHA

 





* New Bibliobus - End of March 2012 * 

Boutros, ALPHA's administrator

For 2012, we planned to work with a Bibliobus in 14 villages of the region. ALPHA is happy to inform you that the Bibliobus will soon be available, at the end of March 2012. We will make it functional with shelves, books and all necessary material to provide cultural openness as well as educational workshops on different topics to 500 direct beneficiaries and 500 indirect beneficiaries. Through the use of a Bibliobus ALPHA will be able to reach 15 villages, comprehensive of the ALPHA centers. Children will be able to browse through the mobile library with the assistance of a specifically trained librarian. He will encourage children to read, to pick age-appropriate books, and will, with the assistance of a social worker conduct public readings with the children in which children are encouraged to identify with the characters of the books and find their own special meaning in the story. Also film-screenings will be made available to the public throughout the year thanks to a special equipment. These activities are implemented in the frame of Article 31 – Leisure, Play, Culture & Article 29 of the Convention of the Rights of the Child, which specifies that “Children have the right to relax and play, and to join in a wide range of cultural, artistic and other recreational activities.” (Article 31). A mobile screen will be carried around in the Bibliobus to provide regular film-screenings in all 15 centers in which also the reading activities take place, as a further tool for entertainment possibilities for children. We will inform you soon about the launching and first travel of the bibliobus ! Stay tunned.


This project is kindly funded by the French Embassy to Lebanon & Fondation CMA CGM 

The ALPHA support team: Boutros, Marwa, Salma, Nina & Albert