Concluding the second cycle of the Social and Financial Education in Lebanon
The second cycle of the Social and Financial Education project in Lebanon (SFEL-II) has been concluded in March 2019 during Global Money Week. This project focused on non-formal outreach through capacity building...
Social and Financial education
Training of Trainers
On September 20th, 2018, YMCA Lebanon initiated a training of trainers for 2 NGOs:
Nour el Alam, and Home of Hope
on social and financial education with the support of YMCA youth volunteers.
The training engaged professionals...
Lebanon. In Beirut, Bekaa and the South groups of youth gathered for a four-day training on the Aflatoun program. The young Lebanese and Syrian youth will work on raising awareness on the need for social financial life skills in schools and centers in their region.
Camp in Saadine,Akkar(North Lebanon)
Akkar, North Lebanon. After the training of teachers for Syrian youth in Beirut, one of the participants approached us. The young man asked to give...
Driving to the shop for groceries
Beirut, Lebanon. In a collaboration between YMCA Lebanon, Enfants Sans Frontiers and the Municipality of Jdeideh the Jdeideh Aflatoun community club is organized on Saturdays.
Every week a group of 40 to 50 children comes together to learn and play in their...
Children of a Sin-El-Fil school discuss their project with children in a Russian Aflatoun Club
Beirut, Lebanon. The Municipality of Biakout is the second Municipality in Beirut, after Sin-El-Fil, that joined the Aflatoun movement by partnering up with YMCA Lebanon on reaching out to children...
Social Financial Life Skills integrated in national curriculum Jordan
Aflatoun International is a global educational organization that develops interactive learning methodologies and life skills and financial education programmes. The programme reaches 4.5 million children and youth every...
Tyre, Lebanon. YMCA Lebanon trainers Claude Geagea and Fady Khoury gave a training on the Aflatoun methodology to fifteen social workers, psychologists and educators from the Imam Sadr Foundation working with children.
Today Aflatoun distributed the trophies for the winners of Aflatoun Marathon. The "Marathon" was a foot race for kids that went through the area of Jisr el Basha (Beirut), organized by the YMCA's Aflatoun program. The goal was to encourage the children to be active and get moving outside! The...
The head of the Aflatoun department, Fady Khoury, was featured on “Tele Lumiere” morning show “A Nour Ma3nah”(النور معنا), discussing the Aflatoun program. He was joined by a representative from the Sin el Fil municipality to discuss the program’s ongoing partnerships with them to implement the...
On March 30th, Aflatoun Lebanon participated in the 2017 Aflatoun Day. Aflatoun Day is the annual celebration of the Aflatoun program, which encorporates everyone who contributes to the program- chilren, youth, teachers, etc. The day consisted of two parts: the first part was a certificate...
This January, Aflatoun helped students plan and run an Environmental Day, in which they both learned about the environment, food, and agriculture, and also got to participate in planting flowers themselves. Two schools, over 100 kids, participated in the event, and it was funded by a bake sale...
YMCA Lebanon was selected as Aflatoun International’s “Featured Partner of the Week”. The article discusses YMCA Lebanon’s history with the Aflatoun program, beginning the program with a pilot in 2010, and expanding gradually over time. Their success in expanding and implementing the program...
