Kayany established 9 GHATA portable schools, bringing quality education to the most vulnerable Syrian refugee children and youth residing in Informal Tented Settlements (ITSs) in the Bekaa Valley.
TELYANI AND NAHREYA
2014 - 2015
Kayany established two schools: The Teach for Hope Syria school and the Kuzbari – Nahreya school. Kayany formed a partnership with JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE to coordinate and operate in the administration of the schools in the Bar Elias area.
FRIENDS OF KAYANY PRIMARY SCHOOLS - SAADNAYEL AND MAJDAL ANJAR
2015
Following a successful partnership with AUB-CCECS, Kayany Foundation established two new schools in partnership with Friends of Kayany, Inc., a US nonprofit organization that shares the charitable mission of educating Syrian refugee children in Lebanon. The project is divided into four components: education, child protection, nutrition, and food safety. Education experts from AUB train the teachers on classroom management and child-centered teaching methods.
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KAYANY MAPS All Girls School
2015
Nobel Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai, established her first all-girls school in Lebanon in partnership with Kayany during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on her 18th birthday. The school teaches the official Lebanese curriculum, and offers vocational skills trainings. They also receive important youth and women protection programs to strengthen resilience against various kinds of exploitation, increase job opportunities, and help them avoid forced early marriage. A second school was established through Malala Fund in 2016, which is now being funded by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS). The girls are provided with accredited education from grade 6 to 9, along vocational trainings in computer literacy, nurse’s aide, sewing, embroidery, hairdressing and cosmetics. Upon graduation students receive a certificate of accreditation from the Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education. The first Malala school is now being supported by UNESCO. In 2022, Kayany formed a partnership with MAPS to coordinate the administration of the second Malala school in Saadnayel.
MEKSI – BOGHOSSIAN FOUNDATION
JANUARY 2017
Kayany established a new school: The Boghossian Foundation – Rotary Germany school in Meksi. Kayany formed a partnership with JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE to coordinate and operate in the administration of the school.
UNESCO KFAS MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS IN BAR ELIAS
OCTOBER 2017
Within the framework of the UNESCO’s project “Supporting the Completion of Basic Education for Syrian Refugees in Lebanon”, Kayany Foundation established a new school for Syrian Refugee girls: UNESCO Middle School for Girls in Bar Elias, an educational and vocational school for 175 adolescent girls who had been missing their education as a result of the conflict in Syria.
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UNESCO MIDDLE SCHOOLS - SAADNAYEL AND MEKSEH
APRIL 2019
Within the framework of the UNESCO’s project “Supporting the Completion of Basic Education for Syrian Refugees in Lebanon” – funded by King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center, we have established two new UNESCO Middle Schools in Saadnayel and in Mekseh. The schools teach the official Lebanese curriculum to 250 Syrian refugees ages 11 to 18.
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