Our dynamic teaching leaders continue educating students through innovative online and distant learning strategies. As they face the challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re inspired to see them finding new ways to connect with and learn from each other with love and passion. Teach For Lebanon Fellows shared that they have used this time to reflect and appreciate things they had previously taken for granted, and that despite the distances they are able to find ways to connect to their students, noticing how powerful their role as educators is.

"That same day, I filled the application to join the Teach For Lebanon Fellowship program. Little did I know that my life would change so much in such a short amount of time and in such a great way".

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The Teach For Lebanon Summer Institute is a six-week training program on Education Pedagogy, certified by the Lebanese American University and supported by USAID and BLOM Bank Lebanon, where Fellows-to-be develop a theoretical and practical understanding of the frameworks of teaching

 

 

GIRLS AND BOYS VOICES AGAINST GENDER BASED VIOLENCE is a high-scale project designed by Teach For Lebanon and funded by the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives to combat gender-based violence by enhancing the leadership of youth. The project's closing ceremony was held at ESA Business School on February 23rd, at the presence of Her Excellency Mrs. Emmanuelle Lamoureux, Ambassador of Canada to Lebanon.

Maybelline NY Levant chose Teach For Lebanon as the beneficiary of their 2019 CSR Campaign “ONE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR ONE”, to celebrate the launch of their newest line of lipstick, where with every purchase of any Maybelline New York lipstick, 1$ will go to Teach For Lebanon.

Students from Sahaguian-Levon Meguerditchian College, led by their Teach For Lebanon Fellows, explored and analyzed issues that have been affecting the lives of less-privileged communities.

Teach For Lebanon Fellow Ghadeer El Saghir was selected among 370 delegates to attend the GGMUN conference in Malaysia, in January 2019, with over 70 people representing their countries as ambassadors for SDG Goal 4: Quality Education.

Cohort 9 Fellow Samia Habli has been teaching English in Sarafand, South of Lebanon. Read her touching testimonial about her experience with the Teach For Lebanon Fellowship Program!

Teach For Lebanon was honored to be taking part in the Lebanese Independence Week at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, to celebrate Lebanon's 75th year of Independence.

[...] This is what Abdel Razzak Abd Al Wahhab's dad, Syrian refugee, told me in an interview at their house: "We live on a farm, and live off of what the farm produces; we never know what the future will bring us; we take each day as it comes".

The Teach For Lebanon (TFL) 2018 Summer Institute took place at the Lebanese American University - LAU in Byblos from July 27 till August 3. The theoretical sessions were sponsored by BLOM BANK and certified by LAU’s Continuous Education Program (CEP).

Teach For Lebanon had the pleasure of attending the YouthCan! Program kick-off, launched by SOS Children's Villages Lebanon, and in partnership with DHL and Johnson & Johnson.

Manal Jaber, Teach For Lebanon Fellow and PhD student at the Beirut Arab University, took part in the Hult Prize Lebanon, a competition held between University students to design an idea for a social enterprise in order to tackle one of the UN Sustainable goals.

Teach For Lebanon CEO Salyne El Samarani was a guest speaker at the Harvard Arab World Conference held at the Kempinski Hotel in Lebanon on April 21, 2018.

Société Générale Banque du Liban sponsored two financial literacy sessions for Grade 9, 10 and 11 students at Sahaguian-Levon Meguerditchian School (Sin el Fil), and Père Afif Osseiran Foundation (Fanar), as part of Teach for Lebanon’s continuous learning program.

Under the patronage of the Minister of Telecommunications Jamal Jarrah, TOUCH and Teach for Lebanon launch e-touch: an educational project for disadvantaged children that aims to support Lebanon’s most disadvantaged children in rural areas. The project, which forms part of touch’s Positive touch Corporate Sustainability program, was officially launched in a ceremony in Béqaa held under the patronage of the Minister of Telecommunications, Jamal Jarrah and in his presence.

A full day workshop was held on Saturday, December 9 in Beirut, with the generous support of BLOM BANK who sponsored the event, implementing the “Spark With Us” fund: a professional development day for the young graduates taking part in the TFL Fellowship Program.

When national and regional leaders gather to support quality education, children dreams have higher chances to become true. Mrs. May El Khalil-Founder and President of Beirut Marathon, Mrs. Salam Hamzeh Ghaith- Founder and President of Smallworld, Mr. Silvio Chiha- Lebanese Professional Athlete, Ms. Michelle Mouracade- Al Fanar Country Director for Lebanon and Deutsche Post DHL Lebanon-- all joined efforts with Teach For Lebanon in its annual event, TFL Week.

In an atmosphere of art and colors, Teach For Lebanon welcomed the Brazilian artist Romero Britto at Haigazian University on Saturday, April 22nd, 2017. Forty students from different Lebanese schools, where Teach For Lebanon Fellows teach, participated in the painting workshop.

We are thrilled to announce that Teach For Lebanon CEO, Salyne El Samarany, and Teach For India Manager of Student Leadership, Sanaya Bharucha, have both been nominated by the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity (the Education Commission) to serve as members of its Youth Panel.