Providing education, employment and empowerment for youth are key factors in achieving local and global progress. And since education has a substantial impact on employment prospects, our mission is conveyed through various activities.
The Rainbow Clubs network offers a wide range of activities, essential to youth empowerment: sports and recreation, arts and culture, awareness, and education. While Cirquenciel, which was established in 2001, became the first social circus school in Lebanon and the Middle East. It plays a vital role in providing youth with sensorial experience, psychosocial support, promoting intercultural dialogue, and helping at risk youth find a professional path via circus arts, performance, and physical education.
The Employment Office complements the educational mission with practical implementation through facilitating access to opportunities, job creation and ensuring career development. It offers job seekers with a set of training needed to gain technical and social skills, acquire decent work, ensure career development and financial autonomy. It also raises awareness from the employer side on equal employment opportunities and inclusion principles.
The placement bureau opens with the sole purpose to help people with disabilities find work in Lebanon. It offers people vocational training and focuses on helping them gain financial autonomy.
The youth program begins in Halba, Akkar, when a group of young people asked to use a gym and pool originally intended for people with disabilities. Inspired by their enthusiasm, arcenciel incubates a specific program “for and with young people in Lebanon.”
Realizing the success of Halba’s youth center, the program opens a Rainbow Club in Beirut (2000), in Taanayel (2002), and in Maasser El Chouf (2003).
After trainings with Cirque du Monde, arcenciel’s youth clubs perfect their circus skills and launch cirquenciel, Lebanon’s first social circus school. cirquenciel promotes intercultural dialogue and helps at risk youth get back on track to success.
In Taanayel, the program opens an integration nursery and specialized classes for students under the age of 10 with special needs. Before the program, there was no infrastructure for children living with disabilities in the Bekaa region.
The program opens the Al Mahabba school in Kfarnabrakh (Shouf) where arcenciel helps integrate disabled children into schools by focusing on the richness of diversity and differences.
It develops a participatory and multidisciplinary approach to collaboration with a focus on academic and civic trainings. Parents and teachers collaborate together in crafting custom lesson for their children and students.
Though the school has closed, it greatly altered the culture of the region, increasing disability awareness within the area’s institutions.
To address the lack of infrastructure and awareness regarding youths living with disability, the program opens a daycare center for integration in Damour.
The Rainbow Club expands again and opens a new branch in Damour
The Rainbow Club keeps growing and expanding. In 2016, it opens a new branch in Sad el Baouchriyé, the newest arcenciel center
The employment program aims to facilitate access to employment opportunities and ensure career development for people with disabilities and vulnerable communities.
For more information please contact: +961 1 495 561 ext.: 1216 / 1217 or +961 3 109 672 or +961 78 874 356
In Lebanon, there is limited support for children born with disabilities. Created in response to a need in the Bekaa region, arcenciel’s specialized classes began as a prototype.
For more information please contact: 08 544 881 ext: 3107
In Lebanon, children with disabilities rarely attend school and are often the victims of intolerance and harassment. Addressing the situation, the program opened small classes tailored to the needs
of disabled children.
For more information please contact: 05 602 642
cirquenciel promotes a culture of peace through play, physical education and arts, with the aim of providing its beneficiaries with unique sensorial experiences. cirquenciel’s mission is to promote community building through collaborative learning.
For more information: 70 257631
The Rainbow Clubs provide spaces for open dialogue, relaxation and training for youth. Clubs activities promote peace-building and foster community building. This network of clubs offers a wide range of activities by balancing sports and leisure, art and culture, and education and training.
For more information: 01 495 561 ext: 1312
John Kennedy St, Jisr el Bacha, Sin el Fil,
PO.Box 16.5216, Beirut, Lebanon
Tel: 961.1.495561 ext.1312
Fax: 961 1 512107