Obtaining and securing children’s rights is also an important target of the German Development Cooperation – not only in Lebanon, but in the entire world as well.
In the context of German-Lebanese development cooperation, Germany through KfW is providing funding to help the Lebanese Ministry of Education to integrate 130,000 children into the national education system in the context of the “Reaching All Children with Education Programme” (RACE), year by year.
This is accompanied by a wide range of non-formal educational activities to help children follow the national curricula, and to reach those vulnerable children, and children with disabilities who are not able to attend the national educational system at all.
Moreover, Germany is supporting the provision of competency-based and vocational skills training for adolescents and youth, avoiding creation of a lost generation, and chances for youth.
In a parallel context, we support educational infrastructure by improving child-friendly schools and appropriate living conditions through shelters, sanitation facility, and water supply. These approaches also contribute to spreading peaceful environments at school particularly for students affected psychologically by the war by helping them recover.
Providing information, counseling and legal assistance for affected people further enhances the German engagement in Lebanon - to claim and exercise their rights, and to find durable solutions especially for ensuring children with human identity.
Let us all keep on contributing to achieve Children’s rights in the future; this will help them live in dignity and to fully unfold their future potential.