Education
The education sector in Lebanon has been severely disrupted in recent years, with a significant decline in enrollment rates and an increase in young people not completing their studies.
In this context, IECD – Semeurs d’Avenir helps teenagers and young adults (aged 12 to 22) with professional guidance, developing their talents, and completing their university education.
IECD implements its educational interventions through two main projects: the Janah socio-educational center, and scholarships offered to refugees under the DAFI project, a German initiative by the Albert Einstein Foundation.
Janah Socio-Educational Center
The Janah center, funded by the Cartier Philanthropy Foundation and the United Nations High Council for Refugees (UNHCR), promotes youths’ education and contributes to their full integration as actors of social and civic change.
After school, youths take part in technical and transversal workshops on diverse topics, for example architecture, electricity, computer science, cooking, and more, to get acquainted with different trades and reveal their interests.
The project accompanied 300 youths in 2024
Offer a comprehensive educational pathway to train and support young people from vulnerable backgrounds to build their own life projects
Accompany education actors in strengthening their capacities to develop their educational role and improve their impact on youth integration
Continuously strengthen the center’s capacities to perpetuate its action in favor of youth education
The Albert Einstein German Academic Refugee Initiative DAFI
Through the Semeurs d’Avenir association, and in partnership with the United Nationals High Council for Refugees (UNHCR), the Albert Einstein German Academic Refugee Initiative (Deutsche Akademische Flüchtlingsinitiative Albert Einstein – DAFI) is a scholarship program offering eligible refugee and returnee students (18-22 years old) all over Lebanon the possibility to earn an undergraduate degree in their country of asylum or home country.
The program supports students in fulfilling the main requirements of their scholarship and leads them on different pathways to develop their personal and professional skills.
More than 500 alumni since 2023
Watch the graduation video above