Volunteers For The Migrant Community Center- Beirut

MCC Beirut is currently recruiting volunteers to teach one of the following classes (in order of priority as proposed by members): Arabic, French, English, Computer, Photoshop, Zumba, Yoga, Guitar, Math, and others. Location: MCC Beirut is located in Achrafieh, Mar Mitr Street, Sabbagha Building (same building as Pharmacy Atik), 1st Floor. You can also find us on Google Maps here. Dates: Classes usually run on weekday evenings and weekends -- and are delivered in two-hour sessions once a week.Teaching dates are flexible and will be matched based upon the volunteers’ and students’ availability. Requirements: - English teachers are required to commit from September 17th till January 14th (a total of 12 teaching sessions), in addition to attending the pre-semester orientation meeting, teaching skills workshop, and curriculum training session, in September. - All other teachers are required to commit for a minimum period of 3 months. Qualifications: - Previous volunteering and teaching experience is not required but a plus.- Speaking proficiency of more than one language is not required but a plus. - Adherance to ARM and MCCs’ visions to create safe, positive, and empowering community spaces that foster a sense of justice, equality, and solidarity, and that are free from all forms of discrimination based on age, race, ethnicity, color, migration or legal conditions, class, education, language, occupation, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, political affiliation, or other attributes. Application Applications will be accepted on the following link https://goo.gl/forms/UCTz8JoHQybH3owY2 Deadline for receiving applications: August 31st for language teachers.Open for all other volunteers. For more information, kindly contact volunteer@armlebanon.org About Us The Anti-Racism Movement (ARM) is a grassroots movement created by young activists in Lebanon in collaboration with migrant community leaders. Together we work on documenting, investigating, exposing and fighting racism in Lebanon, through various initiatives and campaigns. Our current efforts are mainly targeted towards discriminatory and exploitative practices, against migrant workers specifically. Opening and running the Migrant Community Centers (MCCs) is currently ARM’s largest project. Established in Beirut in 2011, and in Saida and Jounieh in 2016, the MCCs’ goal is to improve the quality of life of migrant workers (especially domestic workers) and, increasingly, their capacity to self-advocate. The MCCs are free and safe spaces tailored to and evolving according to users’ needs, where they can meet, learn skills, work together and access information and support. They are also a means to expose their largely ignored communities and cultures to the Lebanese public, mainly though public events and cultural activities. MCC has been providing free language and computer classes since its launch, as well as other classes, activities, workshops, events, field trips, and access to information, resources and assistance. It is also a place to launch initiatives from, a space to have celebrations and get-togethers, and a casual space for migrant workers to spend time with each other.