Nowara

Awareness Campaign “Stories from our village”

Workshop third phase – December 12th, 2014



The National Observatory for Women in Agriculture and Rural Areas – NOWARA – and the Italian NGO CTM Onlus, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture and the Italian Development Cooperation, have organized the third workshop for directors and counsellors of elementary schools in Lebanon who had participated in the campaign “Stories from our village”, implemented with “Les Amis des Marionnettes” in the framework of the project “Socioeconomic development of the rural population of southern Lebanon”.

The workshop, held on December 12th 2014 in the conference room of the Ministry of Education in Beirut, has involved 28 public schools selected by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education.

The workshop has been an occasion to perform the stories written by the classes of the public schools involved in the campaign during its second phase.

6 schools were awarded the “best dialogic story” and the public libraries who worked with the students on the illustrations of the stories were as well honoured by the organizing institutions.

Finally, the project team distributed the new book published with the stories and illustrations to the 28 schools participating in the third phase of the campaign.

The team of Les Amis des Marionettes is now holding the performances in each selected class.

NOWARA PRESENTED “NOWARA AWARD 2013” AND “THE BEST STORY ABOUT WOMEN IN RURAL AREAS” IN HORECA

The National Observatory for Women in Agriculture and Rural Areas – NOWARA – has held on 2nd April 2014, in NOWARA’s stand L15-L19 in HORECA exhibition at Biel, the ceremony of "NOWARA Award 2013" – an Annual National Award for the best economic initiative carried out by women in the Lebanese rural areas, in its third edition and allocated this year to women involved in cooperatives, and the ceremony for "the Best story about women in rural areas" offered to students of 6th, 7th and 8th grades of Lebanese public schools, who participated in the awareness campaign "Stories from our village", implemented in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education since 2012.
The ceremonies were attended by Mrs. Wafa’a Dikah Hamzé – NOWARA founder member – the Director General of the Ministry of Agriculture Mr. Louis Lahoud; the Director General of the Ministry of Industry Mr. Dani Jadaoun; Ms. Vera Zaytouni representing the Director General of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education; H.E. Mr. Giuseppe Morabito, Ambassador of Italy in Lebanon; and Mr. Cristiano Pasini – UNIDO Representative in Lebanon, and the Italian NGO CTM Onlus – who have presented NOWARA Award 2013 to Ms. Samira Zogheib, member of Kfarzebian Women cooperative and winner of the food processing category, and Dr. Raghida El Masri, member of Zadat Al Khairat cooperative winner of the food catering category. They had also delivered the certificates to the six public elementary schools – Al Fawar, Al Hilaliyeh, Al Marwaniyeh, Al Smaiyeh, Kawakaba and Kfarfakoud schools – in the presence of Les Amis des Marionnettes.
"NOWARA Award" and the awareness campaign "Stories from our village" are organized in the framework of the project "Socio-economic development of the rural population of southern Lebanon", promoted by NOWARA and CTM Onlus, in partnership with the Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture, and co-funded by the Italian Development Cooperation. This year, NOWARA Award is supported by the project CELEP for the empowerment of local communities, implemented by UNIDO and ICU, funded by the Italian Development Cooperation.

The National Observatory for Women in Agriculture and Rural Areas – NOWARA – and the Italian NGO CTM Onlus, in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, have organized a workshop for the awareness campaign “Stories from our village” on March 3rd 2014 at Sin El Fil public library, in order to enhance the activity of the public libraries. The event comes after the second workshop held on 12th December 2013, where 14 public schools were invited following to a selection made by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, in addition to the six schools that won the first stage of the campaign, and 30 public libraries chosen by the Ministry of Culture. The workshop was also an opportunity to deliver to all the participants a didactic kit and a CD-ROM, which contains 7 stories recorded by professional actors, and the campaign’s song with a number of books in order to apply this activity in schools and libraries. This campaign aims to raise awareness of the new generations about the importance of the development of rural areas, as well as it highlights the role of women in development and rural family, in addition to the promotion of questions concerning gender equality and maintenance of the heritage and traditions. The awareness campaign is organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture and the Italian Development Cooperation, and it is implemented by “Les Amis des Marionnettes” in the framework of the project "Socio-economic development of the rural population of southern Lebanon".