About SHABAB

SHABAB is a division of the Syria Trust for Development. SHABAB empowers young people in Syria aged 15 to 29 years old to be productive members of their communities by enhancing their employability and entrepreneurial spirit through a series of programmes and activities that are implemented with many local and international partners.

To achieve its objectives, SHABAB takes the beneficiaries through a journey starts from the level of raising their awareness, moving through aptitude tests and skills providing programmes, to realizing and choosing their career path. this journey is represented by series of programmes that have been developed in accordance with SHABAB new strategy to reach wider range of youth in Syria.

Over the past five years, SHABAB has implemented four programmes; ‘Business Awareness’, ‘Know About Businesses’, ‘Business Experience’ and ‘Business Clinic’. One of the distinctive features of SHABAB is that it offers different segments of society the opportunity to participate in the implementation of its programmes and hence, play an active role within their local community.

SHABAB

Youth in Syria are more creative, productive, self-reliant and active members of their society, flourishing with the ability to realise, reach for and achieve their potential

Our Vision

Our vision is of a Syria flourishing with creative, productive and self-reliant young people who realise, reach for and achieve their potential.

Our Mission

Empowering young people in Syria aged 15 to 29 years old to be productive members of their communities by enhancing the employability and entrepreneurial spirit through a series of programmes and activities that are implemented with partners from government, business, the NGO sector, and international institutions

SHABAB objectives:

  1. On the individual beneficiary’s level: ‘Youth in Syria are better enabled to access job opportunities, using skills and knowledge and relevant competencies to improve their future income and reduce their dependency and unemployment’
  2. On the development community level: ‘The development community is actively engaged in youth employability issues and jointly with SHABAB addresses policy reforms’
  3. On civil society’s level: ‘NGO partnerships in place to address youth empowerment, employability and entrepreneurship’
  4. On the Syria Trust’s level: ‘The Trust is able to draw on SHABAB’s capacity to boost its overall reputation and sustainability’

Top 4 Facts About SHABAB:

  • More than 150.000 beneficiaries benefited from our programmes during our first 5 years of operation since its inception 2005
  • It is the only NGO that is allowed to enter schools and bring volunteers from the business world to share their experience with students
  • The first NGO to have one of its programmes adopted by the Ministry of Education and incorporated into the national curriculum of vocational schools and intermediate institutes
  • More than 450 volunteers from the business world in 5 provinces participated in the implementation of our programmes
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