Our Projects
Go Project Hope has designed and implemented a series of sustainable projects to better the lives of displaced persons and refugees to help them reach their full potential. These campaigns involve health and hygiene education, volunteer recruitment, teacher to teacher training and living improvement projects.
Health and Hygiene Education
Go Project Hope aims to improve the overall mental, physical and dental health of displaced families through a series of health education classes and campaigns. Engaging and interactive by design, these campaigns are meant to encourage children and adults while providing useful information and skills.
Hand Washing Campaign
Our Healthy Hands campaign is a series of engaging hygiene lessons that teach children the importance of proper hand washing. Engaging tools such as puppetry and hands on investigative methods capture the attention of children as they learn these important lifelong lessons. In the summer of 2017, Healthy Hands campaign was piloted at a refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece. These lessons were delivered in Arabic and translated in Farsi and Kurdish in order to reach the largest number of people possible.
Dental Hygiene Campaign
Go Project Hope's Smiles campaign encourages good oral hygiene through interactive dental hygiene classes for children and parents. Dental wellness is much needed among displaced populations, with children and adults often expressing dental pain and discomfort. These classes aim to teach proper dental hygiene and preventative care. Go Project Hope aims to assist by providing materials such as toothbrushes, toothpaste and floss and plans to provide dental check ups and treatment through our Refugee Volunteer Recruitment Project (RVRP) to provide medical and dental health volunteers.
Movement and Mindfulness
Our organization aims to bring calm and mindfulness to displaced children and refugees through a series of yoga and art expression classes. Many displaced and refugee children show signs of post-traumatic stress syndrome after being witness to violence and war. Through our yoga and art expression classes, students learn relaxing techniques that can help them bring calm and mindfulness to their everyday lives. Read more about our Arabic Animal Yoga sessions at the camp here http://www.qfi.org/blog/learning-from-my-students/
Music and Movement Program
at the Jalazone Refugee Camp
Project Hope designed and implemented an integrated movement and music class at the Jalazone refugee camp in the West Bank. The classes were for special needs children and their siblings who often care for them. Students ranged from ages 4-14 and had a wide range of special needs including but not limited to autism, learning disabilities, developmental delays and cerebral palsy.
Jamelah Lahoud, a Project Hope Volunteer with formal dance training, designed and implemented these movement classes.
The cover photo was taken by Felix Heins
Refugee Volunteer Recruitment PROJECT (RVRP)
Go Project Hope collaborates with a number of volunteer groups to provide a recruitment platform for candidates to register for various opportunities worldwide. These positions include general, educational and medical volunteers. Translators are in need to assist doctors and other healthcare workers. Go Project Hope provides an opportunity for Arabic, Farsi and French translators to use their much needed language skills.
Living Improvements Projects
Go Project Hope aids refugees by providing basic supplies that improve and impact their daily lives. By providing food, medication, educational supplies and everyday needs, Go Project Hope can directly impact the lives of displaced people.
Teacher-to-Teacher Training
Teachers and healthcare instructors at Go Project Hope provide volunteers with specific tools that can help them in a classroom setting. Go Project Hope provides teachers and volunteers with techniques to teach displaced students and cultural sensitivity training. We provide classes and seminars about understanding post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children and how it can manifest in the classroom.
