You can't protect what you were never taught to love.
Since 2005, Biladi has taken children, refugees and vulnerable young adults onto the sites, into the museums, and through the crafts that make up Lebanon's living heritage — turning distant history into something they can touch, taste and carry forward.
7education programs
15,000+students reached
2,500+youth in AVOCADO
10years of Live Your Heritage
Today's youth often find themselves disconnected from their roots, even as they carry a vital need to reconnect. Biladi closes that gap not through lectures, but through outings, workshops and experiences that engage all five senses.
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01 — Field experiences and direct education
OUR HERITAGE OUR STORY
Bringing Lebanon's heritage closer to children affected by displacement and conflict
An educational and cultural initiative reconnecting children with Lebanon's shared heritage through interactive discovery, creative activities and shared experiences. Over a 10-hour programme, children explore natural, archaeological and architectural heritage, build their own pop-up heritage book, and take home a heritage kit. A Women's Mouneh training extends the work to displaced women.
Part of Jouhouzia, Heritage in Motion turns a refurbished 23-seater Nissan bus into a mobile museum in times of peace and a cultural heritage ambulance in times of crisis. Its first exhibition, Beiti bi el Daiya (My House in the Village), recreates a traditional Lebanese rural home through objects, agriculture, bread-making and food preservation. University students led immersive tours for over 1,000 visitors, while Biladi worked with the Lebanese Armed Forces to equip and train cultural emergency-response teams.
Building belonging through carefully designed site visits
Passionate guides and hands-on workshops turn distant heritage into lasting memory. Every outing deepens cultural knowledge, supports individual and collective resilience, and offers children a healthy, safe and calming environment.
In the 2023 Agri-food Vocational Integration in Local Economies (AVIE) project, Biladi partnered with AVSI to connect traditional Mouneh and food production with practical pathways to work. The report records 120 young people aged 14–24 in 15-day training courses across North and South Lebanon, with 116 continuing to workplace training. A separate adapted programme supported 10 young people with disabilities at Agonista in Jdeideh through baking, food safety and paid production activities.
Six workshops in Anjar, Tyre, Baalbek, Jbeil and the National Museum raised awareness of illicit trafficking in cultural property and trained teachers to carry the educational material into their schools.
Watch the UNESCO documentary through the program title.
Eight workshops in Tyre, Baalbek, Jbeil and the National Museum taught students about UNESCO conventions and heritage protection during conflict. A social campaign spread unity and solidarity as part of the global movement to protect threatened heritage.
Watch the UNESCO documentary through the program title.
Helping refugee children build a positive image of home
Created in response to Lebanon's refugee crisis, this program helped Syrian children discover the wealth of their heritage. Syrian refugee facilitators trained to work through trauma using non-formal materials and song, rekindling the youngest participants' sense of belonging.
A pioneering day introduced children to sculpture, mosaics and pottery through thematic tours, creative workshops, book signings and the documentary Baalito. The Museum Committee displayed the twenty best artworks at the museum entrance.
Education builds the generation that will carry Lebanon's heritage forward. Heritage protection makes sure there is still something for them to inherit.
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