Unemployment across the Levant region remains a critical challenge; while rates vary, structural unemployment in the non-GCC Arab States is projected to stay near 15.5% through 2026, with youth unemployment reaching staggering levels of over 30%.
Simultaneously, a significant "skills gap" persists; companies throughout the region struggle to recruit qualified professionals due to a mismatch between traditional education and market needs. This regional shortage mirrors a global crisis: according to the Korn Ferry Institute, the global shortfall of skilled tech and talent is projected to reach 85.2 million workers by 2030.
Our Intervention
With over a decade of implementing education programs for Syrian children and youth, Jusoor has gained a deep understanding of the unfortunate reality that many children have missed out on too much of their schooling to progress to higher education or secure traditional jobs. In response, we created the Future Skills Project Lebanon to provide young talents with the most practical and pertinent skills to earn decent future work.
Our Curriculum
Our Project focuses on developing future skills in three key areas: beginner and intermediate coding and robotics, critical thinking and problem-solving, and English language proficiency. The coding and robotics curriculum focuses on project-based learning to teach essential programming skills. Young talents learn to use block-based coding languages, debug and resolve coding problems, understand the hardware components and sensors of the Microbit platform, engage in basic design thinking and prototyping, and collaborate on group coding projects. We integrated critical thinking skills through creative activities and games, many of which were developed by our teachers and team. Additionally, our students gain from English language lessons, which help them develop proficiency in this crucial skill for global employability.
Our Students
FSP targets young Syrian talent and marginalized youth in the Levant region. The majority of our participants have been girls.
Our Impact
The Future SKills Project has run three iterations so far:
- 2022/2023: 32 Students, Pilot Project
- 2023/2024: 89 Students, In Collaboration with RobotX for Curriculum Development
- 2024/2025: 75 Students, with support from Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund
“The Future Skills Project helped us change our mindset in such a way that now nothing is impossible.”
- Zeinab*, Jusoor Bourj Hammoud Center
* anonymized pseudonym
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Support Us
If you are keen to join us to transform lives and forge pathways to success for Syrian children and youth, we would be thrilled to make this vision a reality together. connect@jusoor.ngo
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