A Little Farmer15.12.2020

Country: Syria
Implemented by Med Dialogue Fellow: Ahmed Ferhat
Organization: Focus Magazine Aleppo
Duration: 6-7 June 2020

An environmental awareness event set to take place at the Mardin Syrian Refugee Community in Turkey, led by the Med Dialogue Fellow Ferhat Ahmad from Syria, in cooperation with the Rayhan Organisation. The event aims to teach around 50 children about agriculture and its role in maintaining environmental balance and building society, and how it can be applied to help restore war-torn Syria.
This intervention is meant to promote a culture of responsibility and care, where each person contributes since childhood to the preservation of their surroundings and the planet. The children will learn about plants life in Syria and its nature, and how to take care of the plants.

Key Activities:
  • Organizing educational activities for Syrian refugee kids about important flora in their country and how the war has affected it.
  • Screening of an informative video on the importance of trees
  • Organizing theatre plays by Syrian college students
  • Conducting a field trip to the “Beyaz su” of Midyat city
  • Planting trees with kids, in Midyat city
  • Organizing a clean-up event of a public park from plastic waste, with kids involvement
  • Offering olive trees to the kids with a manual on how to plant and take care of them

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