Partners Make the Campaign

A group of ANERA Creative Health partners in training session on using the Campaign materials.

The success of ANERA's Creative Health Campaign relies on strong partners located throughout Lebanon. This initiative shows what’s possible when creative thinkers come together to tackle tough problems.

By working together and focusing resources on shared goals and themes of common concern, we are able to reach tens of thousands of people in Lebanon's poor and marginalized communities.

The Campaign's partner organizations work in the areas of community development, women's empowerment, healthcare, youth development, human rights, education, literacy, and the arts. They are local and national in scope. Some provide logistical support, premises for activities and oversight for events. All distribute the Campaign's user-friendly materials (download them) and spread the Campaign's health messages through their community services. Many organize festivals, mothers support groups, activities with children, summer camps, create interactive games and educational materials.

To Name Just a Few of Our 120 Partners...

ANERA's valued Creative Health partners are too many to list in full. We can, however, give a sampling of the kinds of organizations that have made this Campaign so special.

Arab Resource Center for Palestinian Arts (ARCPA)
A national non-profit that promotes conflict resolution, reconciliation and healing through active learning and creative expression. Al-JANA has put on theatrical performances at Creative Health festivals, organized community festivals in Baddawi and Nahr Bared camps and encouraged members of the Janana network to participate in the Campaign. Visit their website.

Amel Association
A major health non-profit in Lebanon with branches all over the country. Amel Association has been involved in organizing community festive events and organizing mothers support groups. In 2009, they expanded the actions to include Iraqi refugee women in Dahia (suburbs of Beirut) as well as Khiam town in the South. Visit their site.

Palestinian Women’s Humanitarian Organization (PWHO)
A non-profit that has been working in Palestinian refugee camps for 15 years to improve the lives of women and children through public health and educational initiatives. In 2009, PWHO took the lead in organizing Tenderness, Love and Care community festivals in six sites all over Lebanon. Visit their site.

Najdeh Association
An independent national NGO with more than 30 years of experience, Najdeh Association aims to empower women -a severely disadvantaged component of the Palestinian refugee community -with the tools necessary to have a more prominent role in their community. Najdeh operates 26 centers in and around refugee camps. Najdeh is integrating the Creative Health Campaign approaches and materials into their programs. Visit their site.

Smart Use of Medicine Campaign
The following 23 local and international groups and networks (and UNRWA) partnered with ANERA to endorse the production and distribution of the Smart Use of Medicine ( known as Zaka wa Dawa ) publication in January 2011: Amel Association, American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) , Arab Resource Center for Popular Arts/Al-Jana, Bait Atfal Assumoud (BAS), Caritas-Austria, Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center (CLMC), Zakat Fund in Lebanon-Dar El-Fatwa, Health Care Society (HCS), Human Call, the Janana network, KAFA (Enough) Violence and Exploitation, Lebanese Society of Family Medicine (LSFM), Al Najdeh Association, The National Association for Vocational Training and Social Services (NAVTSS), Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) , The Popular Aid for Relief and Development (PARD), Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), Ricerca e Cooperazione (RC), Soins Infirmiers Développement Communautaire (SIDC), Save the Children (SCF), Al- Shifa Clinic, Palestinian Women Humanitarian Organization (PWHO), Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) Lebanon, and United Nations Relief and Works Agency For Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

Anti-Smoking Campaign
The following 28 groups/networks partnered with ANERA to produce Anti-Smoking materials (also known as Aqua Dunia materials) in summer 2009: Lebanese Family Planning Association, RC, Shajar Bashar, JAD (Youth Against Drugs), Lebanese Society for Family Medicine (LSFM), Al-JANA (ARCPA), JANANA network, Women Humanitarian Organization, Amel Association, Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), SASCD (Tadamon), Ard al-Tofoula, Lebanese Cancer Society, The National Institution of Social Care and Vocational Training (Beit Atfal Somoud), Institut de Reeducation Audio Phonetique (IRAP), Smoker’s Clinic, Children of al-Jalil Center, Association Najdeh, Health Care Society, Children and Youth Center-Shatila, Centro de Solidaridad Social, Human Call Association, Lebanese Association for Early Childhood Development (LAECD), Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), Baraem Association for Relief and Social Care, Center of Continuing Education, Social Development Center, and Palestine Scouts.

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Date Modified: February 2011