Education is the foundation of progress, but it is often interrupted by extreme poverty, war and other crises. As a result, individuals and their communities often can’t reach their full potential. HCI works to bring access to education to women and men of all ages and economic groups to help ensure a better future for all. HCI builds on the courage and resourcefulness of women to help them realize their potential and improve their families and communities. HCI helps mobilize youth to influence a better tomorrow, while also offering education and job training to give them a place in the changing global economy. HCI works with communities to shelter and nurture children through innovative education, health and nutrition programs.
Education and Empowerment
Active People for Active Change: HCI’s Healthy Living Campaign and the Beirut International Marathon
Children, Education and Empowerment, Health and Sanitation, Lebanon, Youth
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Dec 102009
Last Sunday the streets of central Beirut were transformed by the Beirut International Marathon. For one day they were devoid of traffic, as people of all ages, religions, ethnicities, and nationalities walked and ran side by side. They turned the streets into a sea of people, all of them willing to sacrifice their time and [...]
Sohatak Bel Deni: the launching of HCI’s specially tailored healthy eating habits manual in Lebanon
Children, Education and Empowerment, Farm to School, Health and Sanitation, Lebanon
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Oct 282009
Every child deserves to be healthy; the proverb “healthy body, healthy mind” says it all; access to a good nutritious meal and developing healthy eating habits are vital for every child’s well being. In 2009, HCI introduced the “Farm to School Program” in Lebanon, where small scale farmers, low income students, and unemployed women living [...]
Farm to School Project: Expanding Regionally
Agriculture, Children, Education and Empowerment, Farm to School, Health and Sanitation, Lebanon, Youth
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Jul 302009
The “Farm to School program brings healthy food from local farms to thousands of poor school-aged children in low-income remote villages. Moreover, the program teaches students about healthy eating habits that can last a lifetime. In addition, the use of local products in school meals and educational activities provides a new direct market for local [...]
Sudan Dairy; Building Capacities and Unlocking the Potential of Widows and Orphans
Education and Empowerment, Livelihoods and Enterprise, Orphans, Sudan, Woman, Youth
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Jul 082009
In May 2009, the HCI team launched two projects in Sudan that will provide credit capital and the necessary training and coaching to two new communities in two settlements in the south and the north of the capital Khartoum as well as a project which will promote entrepreneurial spirit among impoverished Sudanese orphans, and giving [...]
The Happiness Forest: Bringing Together and Empowering Iraqi Refugees and Their Hosts
Education and Empowerment, Iraq, Jordan & Iraq, Protection and Human Rights, Youth
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Jun 102009
Jordan hosts around 500,000 Iraqi refugees among which about two thirds are children and youth below the age of twenty four. A large number of them are known to be physically, psychologically, and/or economically vulnerable. In the poor neighborhoods of Amman deprivation and the limited availability of resources create tensions between low income Jordanians and [...]
West Bank: School Bags for Children in Need
Education and Empowerment, Palestine, West Bank
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Sep 252008
“HCI contribution has improved the lives of many families living in despair and gave hope to many hopeless children. Just watch the smile of every child who benefited from HCI school bags project you can then see the great impact the project had on those children” commented Sarah Barakat, President of HCI local partner in [...]
Heroic people on a special mission
Education and Empowerment, Sudan
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Jul 302008
Desolated land, unpaved roads, dry landscape, hazy horizon, donkey carts, small motorbikes, roaming barefooted children, makeshift houses, no schools, health facilities, water, electricity or sanitation. This is how I describe the Salama settlement south of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, which I visited last week with my colleagues. HCI has been operating in this area since [...]
