We are happy to introduce our NGO Just.Childhood with its three main programs: Bait al-Shams Kindergarten in Sabra, our Skateboarding Program, and our Psycho-social support/Emergency Pedagogy Program in Sabra and Karantina. We are happy you came across our project and would like to utilize the following pages to give you an insight into our work, aims – and dreams! In a nutshell, Just.Childhood or
iginally emerged from a community initiative of people who primarily wanted to take up educational issues in the Palestinian refugee camps and reform the pedagogical approach, especially in early childhood education, in this context. To this day, the organization understands its work as involving the community, responding to its needs and implementing activities that serve these. We operate in the education and psycho‐social support sector and are autonomous, as well as politically and religiously independent. Our main goal is to actively protect the childhood of socially marginalized and traumatized children in Lebanon and to support their right to play, learn and develop in safety. All our programs are based on Waldorf pedagogical methods. Just.Childhood sees education as one of the core issues of its development work: in particular, early childhood education as the foundation of any secondary education. Improving early childhood education not only has an immediate positive impact on further schooling, but also shows positive effects on further education and employment opportunities in the medium and long term. It counteracts possible radicalization at an early stage. For these reasons, access to quality early childhood education is one of the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Our organization with all its programs are based on social ideals and the conviction that education, and early childhood education in particular, can make a decisive contribution to building a future society that is less violent, more just and more compassionate. With this page we would like to give you an insight into our work and keep you updated on the latest developments. You can also see our website with more details: www.justchildhood.org
