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UTOPIA Organization is a non-governmental, non-profit organization dedicated to abolishing all types of social discrepancies in the Lebanese society through specialized projects and programs that rely on voluntary work, in hopes of acquiring social justice among people within the same society regardless of their political or religious beliefs.

The purpose of UTOPIA Organization is to inspire a culture of civic awareness and equal citizenship in the Lebanese society to make the change we aim at achieving.

Our Programs and Target Groups

To achieve our mission, we invest in the following programs: Community Service, Youth Empowerment, Women Empowerment, Child Development, and Advocacy.

- Community Service Program: includes rehabilitation and beautification of marginalized, conflict-prone areas of North Lebanon, as well as relief response campaigns.

- Youth Empowerment Program: conduct capacity and career building workshops and youth dialogue round-tables, and be the link between unemployed youth and employers in order to shorten linkages between them and place youth in jobs.

- Women Empowerment Program: offer vocational trainings for women of marginalized areas of North Lebanon and help them initiate their own income-generating businesses, in addition to offering frequent health awareness sessions.

- Child Development Program: spreading standards of human rights and tolerance, and creating an enabling environment for education, communication, critical thinking and soft skills.

- Advocacy Program: improve municipality's responsiveness to the needs and concerns of citizens, and also act on the level of the central government on issues of public concern.