Baytna’s Blog
Before the popular, peaceful revolution began in 2011, Syria was an unknown entity for those unfamiliar with the region or with the realities of living under an authoritarian regime.
Since then, as Syrians began to spread around the world, fleeing the regime’s violence, many facets of Syrian life and social customs became better known, and civil society activities started bringing varied aspects of this wonderful country’s people to light.
Baytna’s Blog will bring some of their stories to you.
An Unconventional Life Skills Retreat for Azaz Youth
The two-day life skills training, organized by Baytna’s partner Hooz Center for Community Development, was designed to help emerging civil teams in the city to better function with one another.
Syrian Women are Creating Their Own Opportunities
The Women's Support and Empowerment Unit, one of the organizations Baytna supports and funds in Syria, is a non-profit civil society organization that launched in 2018 with a conference attended by more than 150 women from Aleppo's northern and eastern countryside. The Unit now has over 500 members from all around the countryside of Aleppo, from Afrin to Jarablus.
Young Syrians’ Participation in Public Life Rises
Baytna’s recent support for the Hawz Center, established in 2016 in the cities of Azaz and Al-Bab in northwestern Syria, has shown that programs with young men and women are increasingly popular in some areas of Syria.
Networks and Alliances for Aleppo’s Civil Society
Wasl Network is a group of local civil society organizations in the northern and eastern countryside of Aleppo, working to support Syrian civil society to play a more influential role in advocating the issues of its communities, and choosing its representatives to implement programs that serve these issues.
Building Young Syrians’ Political Empowerment in Northern Syria
Focusing on education, protection, empowerment, capacity building, support for community resilience, and peace and governance building with Afaq organization in Northern Syria.
Civil Society And Environmental Engagement
In the World Environment Day, here is how Baytna supports the environment through its projects inside Syria.
In Eastern Syria, Rising Youth Political Awareness is Changing Communities
The Peace Tent is a non-governmental, non-profit Syrian civil society organization. Founded in 2018, it seeks to achieve community stability and to build sustainable regional and peace by spreading a culture of human rights and citizenship, and by achieving social cohesion and reconciliation in societies emerging from conflict.
Peace in Syria: Possibility or Fantasy?
On the sidelines of the 6th Brussels Conference on Supporting the future of Syria and the region, Baytna and the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) co-organized a side event on May 6, 2022, bringing together leading members of Syrian civil society to explore their vision on required elements for sustainable peace in Syria.
The Inspirational Women Strengthening Syrian Civil Society
The Fadaa project aims at empowering women's capabilities to engage in the workplace. As many women do not have work experience, they need a space to gain and improve the skills needed to enter the labor market, and to succeed in their chosen careers.
Planting a New Hope for Syria
Through their work with young men and women in the community, the female leaders of the "Basmat Janudiyat" organization seek to implement pioneering projects in the region that have not been done before, to maintain the renewal of the civil work and not to implement projects executed by other organizations, in order to avoid wasting resources and to participate in supporting the area with what it really needs.
Messages of Peace, Advocacy, and Mobilization from Syria
The Women for Peace organization conducts periodical workshops with the young men and women of their city to convey powerful advocacy messages to their participants, spreading the culture of mobilization advocacy and empowering a group of women and youth to be community capital.
World Refugee Day
On World Refugee Day, Syrians the world over are looking for a way to go home. For that to happen, they need the international community’s support, so that they can rebuild their country.