At the start of March, we decided to close our centers’ doors to ensure the safety of our students and teachers as the ongoing war and escalation in Lebanon continue.
However, education did not stop. We quickly shifted to online learning. Thanks to our tried and tested Online Learning Initiative, Azima, our teachers are well-equipped to teach online with minimal software requirements and a lot of determination.
Due to internet shortages and mobile-only online accessibility for most of our students, our teachers and students exchange videos, assignments, and corrections on WhatsApp, ensuring that every child continues to receive an education and keep their learning on track, no matter the circumstances.
Our online intervention includes literacy, numeracy, and psycho-social support sessions—supervised by our psychosocial support counselors— for both the children and their parents, to support them with coping with the added stress in the current situation.
More than 468 students (54%) are actively engaged in online learning with our teachers at the moment. We are working on reaching out to the rest of the students, especially our youngest learners from our Early Childhood Education program, who are more challenging to reach online.
While the ongoing war makes it difficult for our staff to operate, the normalcy of these online lessons is a powerful coping mechanism for our students and teachers. For our young learners, education provides stability in what is already a challenging time to grow up in. Added to the uncertainty of war, this stability becomes not just important, but essential to their well-being.
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