Sweida-Sana
Shams Volunteer Team in Sweida is one of the voluntary initiatives aimed at serving children without family care, improving their educational and awareness conditions, and providing them with the necessary skills to bring them back to their true childhood and school seats, in order to serve to enhance the role of marginalized groups.
The team carries out its work through 35 volunteers under the supervision of the Directorates of Culture in Sweida and Child Culture at the Ministry of Culture and implements many workshops, educational and entertainment sessions, various initiatives and manual work programs such as embroidery, knitting and making ceramic roses to empty the energies inside children while drawing their attention to themselves and their self-esteem and introducing them to defense methods. On their own from the dangers of the street, as well as networking with the concerned authorities to find solutions to raise awareness of them and reintegrate them properly into society.
SANA monitored the team’s work, for example, the child Adnan was 12 years old, and after dropping out of school repeatedly, his academic level and his failure to attend work for varying periods and the absence of a supportive environment for him, Shams Volunteer Team succeeded in embracing him and following him periodically through repeated educational and awareness sessions and communicating with parents what This led to his improvement in his level, ensuring that he stayed in school and pursued his education.
As for the child, inspiring 10 years, he is distinguished by a sweet voice absent from the sound of cars on the traffic lights, but the exercises of the choir of Shams' musical and lyrical team returned hope to his childish voice and unleashed his talent and gave him the opportunity to appear on the stage of the Palace of Culture in As-Suwayda in front of the audience who drew his attention and encouraged this talent to embrace it.
The dream of the happy child, who was writing within the wish box of the Shams team, to become a famous football player. Work is done in order to reach him through training that he and his companions receive on a regular basis in an atmosphere of enthusiasm and activities, which led to the refinement of his talent that caught the attention of coaches and observers in the hope Embrace it.
The coordinator of the Shams Volunteer Team, Thara Atallah, indicated that the team is interested in the elderly in the Social Welfare Association by visiting them periodically to find out what they need and to carry out activities with them, joint sessions and talks to listen to them and share with them food and drink in a thoughtful way in which the volunteers worked as young people with experience in social work and try to reduce the overwhelming feeling of The life of an elderly person with loneliness and lack of family to participate in the development process and build a healthy society.
According to Basil Al-Hinnawi, Director of Culture in Sweida, the volunteer Shams team works under the supervision of the Directorate and the Ministry of Culture within the life skills project, and through the initiatives and activities it undertakes, it acquires importance to serve marginalized groups, provide the necessary care for them, create a safe environment for them, develop their skills and employ them as an active element in society, which gives a community value that creates value. An additive that enhances its cohesion, especially in these difficult circumstances in which we live.
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