a. Project title: Give them a hand (GTAH)

b. Localization of the project: Libya (Benghazi, Tripoli)

c. Brief Summary

This project is intended to help Libyan population who have suffered amputations of extremities during the revolution and war of 2011, mainly youth and children. The goal is to regain and reintegrate these people into the society, to empower them thus they can be a significant part of the social and material reconstruction of the country.

We intend to achieve this aim in three distinct phases:

Primarily create a network between medical organizations on the ground and European hospitals that have the technical capacity to provide them with a prosthesis.

Secondly to shoot a documentary in order to raise awareness about this reality in the European society.

Finally, a wide dissemination of the documentary that serves to raise awareness and prompt both governments and organizations to provide the necessary funds to carry out the enabling of implant prostheses to the affected.

d. Description of the beneficiaries

Due to the novelty of the situation in Libya, it seems to be very difficult to acquire information about our target population: mutilated youth. There hadn’t been a specific report dealing with the subject matter. Meanwhile, the Libyan society has an enormous responsibility in restructuring the country throughout the transitional period. For such a call, civil society restoration stands to be the first crucial step towards communitarian integration. The biggest responsibility falls on the category of youth, who have the will and enthusiasm for implementing structural changes that yields the way towards legal democracy.

Yet, the war in Libya has left almost every family with a physical injury of one of its family members. Mutilated young revolts and civilians can no longer carry on with physical tasks due to their injuries. From the other side, the government has failed to provide medical treatment nor living allowances for survival. Thus, providing the mutilated young with the necessary medical treatment will serve to be a critical phase towards their integration in the society and participation in the decision-making process. The young who set the revolution are ought to be the engine for change during the transitional period. Their withdrawal from the scene will cause serious damages to the future of Libya and failure of youth representation and a potential setback in the progress of Libya towards a democratic future.

e. Predecessors and justification of the project

In order to justify the need for implementation of the concerning project, we are presenting several references from international reports as well as the executions of other organizations working on the matter.

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), more than 1.1

million people have been directly affected by the fighting.1

In the UK Border Agency, UNHCR Report about Libya is stated that: Further investigation is also warranted, it stated, with regard to the use and recruitment of child soldiers. The commission also found that torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment were committed by both the Government and opposition forces in violation of obligations under international human rights law and

humanitarian law.2

1 WHO Libya Crisis Meeting Humanitarian Health Need 12 July 2011, http :// www . emro . who . int / eha / pdf / libya _ donor _ alert . pdf

2 UK Border Agency, UNHCR Report, Libya, http://bit.ly/wr1ZUM

The WHO Situation Report 233 gives specific information about the World Health Organization activities

and a resume of the current situation we are dealing with:

● Many health care facilities have been badly damaged due to the combined effects of on-the-ground fighting and collateral damage suffered during aerial bombing. This, together with the mass exodus of migrant health care workers, especially nurses, and acute shortages of medicines and supplies, has led to the collapse of the primary health care network. People are now seeking basic health care at secondary or tertiary level health care facilities, placing an additional burden on hospitals that are struggling to cope with the influx of severely-injured patients. An in-depth assessment of the impact of the crisis on the health sector, taking account of the above factors, is urgently needed.

● WHO's main HC partners in Libya are: Save the Children, the Arab Medical Union (AMU), Islamic Relief, Mercy Malaysia and International Medical Corps (IMC). Non-HC collaborators include Medecins sans Frontieres (Belgium and France), ICRC and the Libyan Red Cres- cent. UN partners are IOM, UNICEF, UNFPA, OCHA, UNHCR, WFP.

According to the report from the International Committee of the Red Cross the Facts and figures4 the ICRC

in Libya the specific information is as follows: Health care

● Since the beginning of the conflict, the ICRC has provided 68 hospitals with emergency medical supplies, including special items for the treatment of up to 3,250 weapon-wounded patients, surgical instruments, wound-dressing materials and drugs for some chronic diseases.

● During the conflict, the ICRC evacuated 122 wounded patients for urgently needed medical treatment (and 54 relatives accompanying them), in some cases working together with the Libyan Red Crescent.

● The ICRC deployed four field surgical teams during the conflict, the first two in late February to Benghazi and Ajdabiya, and the other two in late August to Tripoli and later the Nefusa mountains (Yefren). The teams assisted Libyan surgeons in the treatment of war casualties.

Clearing explosive ordnance and warning about their dangers

● In 2011, the ICRC cleared over 2,000 unexploded devices and more than 1,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition in the areas of Ajdabiya, Brega, Bani Walid, Sirte and the Nefusa mountains.

● The organization trained approximately 300 Libyan Red Crescent volunteers and other community volunteers to deliver basic messages on the risks posed by these explosive remnants of war.

In addition, since the conflict broke out, some 2,650 people have turned to the ICRC for help in finding out what happened to relatives they lost contact with. Besides the ICRC and Red Crescent’s efforts to restore the bonds between families, there is a humanitarian vacuum when it comes to restoring families which have witnessed some of their members being wounded or seriously injured, specially when taking into account that most of their injured belong to the younger generations of the Libyan families.

Due to the International Medical Corps - Libya One Year Report,5 during the conflict, Libyan health

facilities were stretched to their limits, while supply chains for medications and medical supply were cut thus an urgent shortages of medical staff and supply occurred. Since the onset of the conflict in February 2011, IMC has been on the ground assisting the Libyan people directly affected by the violence by providing emergency medical care to casualties from the fighting and the support to hospitals with the medical staff and supplies. In the annual report, it's explained that over 95.000 medical consultation and surgeries had been done and 192 tons of medical supply had been delivered to Libya in the past year. In addition to that, 329 rehabilitation service had provided and 78 health facilities had been supported all across Libya.

As we can see from the elaborated references many international institutions and organizations are working in Libya on providing better living conditions in a post-revolution and post-war country. Our specific intention is to provide help to a niche of the society which is in need of a specific help, is not

3 WHO Situation Report 23, http :// www . emro . who . int / eha / libya _21_7_011. html 4 International Committee of the Red Cross Facts and figures: the ICRC in Libya

http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/fact-figures/facts-figures-libya-2011.htm5 International Medical Corps, Libya One Year Report, http :// internationalmedicalcorps . org / LibyaOneYearReport

considered as priority at the moment, and has great potential to be re-integrated in its own country and help it develop with its own capacities.

f. Identifying and description of the actors involved

In the process of implementation of the projects we identify three different actors: the implementing group, the partner organizations (divided in logistics help and medical assistance), and the target group of injured youth.

1. Implementing group: Master students on Euro-Mediterranean Relations, acting as part of the Unesco Chair for Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean

Meriç Çaglar: Helsinki Citizens Assembly - Refugee Advocacy and Support Program, Turkey

Hagar Ibrahim: Alashanek YA Balady (AYB) - Assessment & field researcher officer in Squatter Settlements, Egypt

Aran Bonamusa: activist in social movements, Spain

Mireia Nadal Chiva: participant in The Standard Arabic Regular Courses Program, University of Damascus, Syria

Slavica Ilieska: Centre for the Cooperation in the Mediterranean, Red Cross, Spain - Volunteer; Foundation Open Society Institute Macedonia, Roma Health Scholarship Program, Macedonia - Project logistics; Balkan Children and Youth Foundation, Project for informal education among minorities, Macedonia - External logistics

2. Partner organizations and institutions:

- Centre for the Cooperation in the Mediterranean, Spain - support organization for providing contacts

- Red Crescent, Libya - local partner organization for direct contact with people in need

3. Target group: Focus on injured children and teenagers - youth in the Revolution of 2011

g. Action goals: general and specific

Aim - raising awareness about the difficulties mutilated revolutioners are facing with in everyday life

Specific objectives - providing medical assistance for mutilated people and re-integrate them into the society

h. Activities:

We divided the activities necessary for completing the project and gain the most efficient results in three phases: First phase - Field Work, Second phase - Post Analysis and Third phase - Dissemination Activities.

First Phase - Field Work Starts with an initial meeting of all partner organizations to discuss everything that is necessary for successful start-up of the project: identifying concrete individuals that have suffered from mutilation as a result of the Revolution in 2011; organizing details about logistic help during the filming of the documentary and detailed list of activities and engagement of every partner involved. The activity field work, consists of working directly with the beneficiaries, shooting their everyday life and the difficulties they deal with, in order to share their life story with the public and especially with health institutions that can offer medical help. Practically, the activity includes one month of working together with our beneficiary group, the local NGO and the documentary producers. Also, in order to gain more visibility for the project from its start, in this phase we will include building a web page and sharing the information through video channels and

social media.

Second Phase - Post Analysis Located out of the beneficiary country Libya, and involves analysis of the field work in order to find concrete ways to act as a mediator between the mutilated riots and health institutions. The practical work involves post-production and realization of the documentary and translation so that it can reach easily people from different language areas.

Third Phase - Dissemination Activities Involves setting up of several distribution channels to spread the documentary and information gained from the field work

- contacting the partner organizations and asking them to spread the information through their mailing lists of collaborators

- using the Unesco Chair for Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean for institutional reach of the information

- distribution of the documentary to International Documentary Festivals in order to get international audience

- public presentation of the documentary with invitations to the partner organizations, health institutions and all actors that can get practically involved in solving the problem with medical intervention and future re-integration in the society

The General Time Plan:

TIME ACTIVITY

August 2012 First phase: Preparation

September 2012

Field work and Shooting of the documentary

October 2012 Second phase: Post Analysis

November 2012

Analysis of the field work Post-production of the documentary

December 2012

Post-production and translation of the documentary

January 2013 Third phase: Dissemination

February 2013

Presentation in front of organizations, institutions, hospitals and participation in Documentary Festivals Lobbying

Field work for measuring effects

March 2013 Final report

i. Expected results

Short-term results: raising awareness about the mutilated revolts and civilians - specially youth

Long-term results: supplying medical assistance; measurement of effectiveness: number of people with surgeries and implants

j. Continuity of the action after finishing with the intervention

- Building bridges between hospitals and injured people (acting as mediator)

- Sending the documentary to Festivals in order to reach greater audience and awareness about the issue

- Make propaganda among individuals and more important institutions that can directly help in solving problems and create better life opportunities for the injured people

- Take positive advantage of the success stories - treated people, and using them for starting point for making another documentary. The intention is to send a message that this people are young and able to contribute to the society if they are provided with necessary help to make their life a little bit easier.

k. Diffusion

As elaborated in the part Activities, the process of diffusion is the most important step that we are working on, because it leads us to actual realization of our goal - medical help for mutilated riots. Our major identified distribution channels are:

- partner organizations and their network of collaborators

- Unesco Chair for Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean and their institutional network

- web page, video channels and social media

- International Documentary Festivals

- public presentation

l. Budget

Budget/Co-finance:

COSTS IN EUROS

First phase - Field Work 13.500

Building web page and social media promotion (co-finance) 1.500

Travel costs 3.250

Accommodation costs 1.000

Living costs 4.250

Documentary shooting 5.000

Second phase - Post Analysis 10.000

Post-production of the documentary 10.000

Translation of the documentary (co-finance) 2.000

Third phase - Dissemination Activities 13.000

Distribution of the documentary to media and festivals 1.000

Presentation costs 1.000

Project implementation:

Team logistics 11.000

Unesco chair administration (co-finance) 5.000

Total (co-finance) 18.88% 8.500

TOTAL 36.500

TOTAL PLUS IN-KIND 45.000

m. Other financial sources

Additional funding: Because the project is on a big scale, we intend to realize it in three phases and at the same time apply for funding for every phase separately. At the same time we are contributing to the project with our own funding in the parts of translation of the documentary and web promotion (3.500 Euros). The Unesco Chair for Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean offers in-kind support for administration and logistics (50 hours consultant work/5.000 Euros) .

The other possible funds are as follows:

Arab Regional Office by Open Society Foundations

AECID

European Comission - Youth in Action Programme

Premios Jovenes Emprendedores Sociales - Universidad Europea de Madrid