Young Syrian programmers (SYpro)

As the Syrian crisis enters its tenth year, civilians continue to bear the brunt of a conflict marked by unparalleled suffering. Over half of the population have been forced from their homes, and many people have suffered multiple displacements. The scale, severity, and complexity of needs across Syria remain overwhelming. The UN states that 13.1 million people in Syria require humanitarian assistance. Of these, 5.6 million people are in acute need due to a convergence of vulnerabilities resulting from displacement, exposure to hostilities, and limited access to basic goods and services. At the same time, there has been a very significant decrease in net income due to higher production and marketing costs, and very constrained purchasing power as the index of food consumer prices increased by 800 percent between 2010 and 2018. As a result, 90% of households now spend over half of their income on food, against 25 percent before the crisis. In addition, only 25 percent of households still have access to income from any source, against 60 percent before the crisis.
The lives and livelihoods of Syrians have been shattered and coping strategies have been exhausted, stretching their resourcefulness to its absolute limit. Families are resorting to unsustainable and unsafe means of survival, including forced and/or early marriage, child labor, child recruitment, survival sex and temporary marriages, and joining extremist groups. Such survival practices reflect foremost on the wellbeing of vulnerable groups- particularly youth women, IDPs, and PwD- and foremost their food security.
we are planning to establish and equip a 4-classroom in 3 life skills centre .
The centers will offer 9,600 life skills sessions targeting at least 640 boys and girls with a focus on youth from 15 to 17 YO. In order to design an approach that is responsive to the needs of the targeted youth, we conduct a social and market assessment and map the existing services during the first month of the action to identify the exact existing gaps and opportunities. The final curriculum of the life skills session will therefore be developed on the basis of the assessment results and in collaboration with donor. The preliminary assessment, however, revealed a real gap in programming computer skills among youth and therefore, it is anticipated that these two skills will be the main focus of the centre. The programming skills and Microsoft package, the curriculum of the that was developed with a professional’s programmer will be used. The program that defines the skills and competencies necessary to develop a website and common computer applications. It offers a wide range of modules including:

Strengthen livelihoods by creating access to income generating opportunities and by improving access to production and market infrastructure for vulnerable women and men in Idleb Countryside
OUTPUT 1 Provide youth with informal vocational education opportunities
We are proposing to provide 640 adolescents boys and girls aged 15-17 with informal Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) through the establishment of TVET classrooms in non-formal education facilities. Adolescents’ boys and girls will have access to soft skills trainings (programming), to strengthen and reinforce their resilience.