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Case Study: Let Me Keep My Childhood “La Tkabrouna”

Ahel
  • Type

    Case studies

  • Region

    SWANA

  • Practice

    Coaching, Public narrative, Relationship building, Team structure, Strategy, Action

  • Language

    Arabic, English

Since 2019 Ahel was coaching and training the campaign “Let Me Keep My Childhood” in Lebanon with cooperation with Women Now organization. In 2022, this case study was published to document the journey of the campaign which faced economic and cultural challenges.
This case study documents the experience of the “Let Me Keep My Childhood” campaign, which succeeded in using community organizing to stop 60 marriages and postponing 55 engagements for a Syrian girl under the age of 18, in the central Bekaa region in Lebanon. The study narrates the sequence of the campaign in choosing its strategic goal, forming the team, defining its strategy and tactics to reach its success, and organizing their celebration
Foundation team structure

This case study is also available in Arabic 

Resource Information

  • Year: 2022
  • Author: Ahel
  • Publisher: Ahel
  • Tags: —
  • Access : Public
  • Topics : Gender
  • Regions : SWANA

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