Since 2001, TFI has been focusing on tobacco prevention campaigns that target teenagers. It has already reached more than 100,000 students aged between 12 and 16 in 100 major public and private schools both religious and non-religious all over Lebanon.
In order to reinforce the impact of its Tobacco Prevention Campaign in schools, TFI launched in 2010 its new project entitled: “Tobacco Free Schools” with the support of the World Health Organization, the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health and the General Secretary of Catholic Schools:
Objectives:
TFI’s main target is to transform all schools in “Tobacco Free Schools” in Lebanon through different steps:
- Gain school directors to our cause by convincing them to prohibit smoking in the school
- Get their commitment to make their school a 100% tobacco free space
- Create an awareness at all levels in order to ease a proper implementation: directors, teachers, parents, students
- Give to schools the right tools to help them implement the tobacco free project in a healty and not imposed way.
- Control and adapt
- Reveal to teenagers the trap of tobacco advertising.
- Inform teenagers about the consequences of smoking.
- Create in teenagers mind a “critical thinking” and an “active attitude” against tobacco.
- Guide teenagers towards activities that promote a healthy life (sports, music…)
Below are some examples of schools where TFI has worked:
Ali ben Abi Taleb – Makassed Sodeco
Broummana High School
Centre Nour El Hayat – Bourj Hammoud
Charite Clemenceau
Collège des Pères Antonins – Baabda
Collège des Sœurs des Saints Cœurs – Sioufi
Collège des Sœurs du Rosaire – Mansourieh
Collège Saint Joseph – Aintoura
École Publique pour les Garçons – Chiyah
École Val Père Jacques – Jal el Dib
El Kabbouchieh- Hamra
Fondation Père Afif Osseiran – Fanar
Frères Maristes – Jbeil
Grand Lycée Franco-Libanais – Achrafieh
Iman Al Hassan – Roueiss
International Collège – Ain Aar
International Collège – Hamra
Jeunes filles du Liban – Beit Hebbak
Khadija Al Koubra Lycée Franco-Libanais – Nahr Ibrahim
Sagesse Jdeideh
Saint Charbel – Harissa
Saint Joseph- Jbeil Sœurs Des Saints Cœurs Hadad
Soeurs des Saints Cœurs Kfarehbeb
St Anthony School – Mastita
St Georges – Zalka
Ste Famille – Batroun
Collège des Frères Maristes – Amchit
Collège des Saints Hripsimiantz – Fanar
Collège des Sœurs de Nazareth – Achrafieh
Ecole Amelieh- Nabatieh
Ecole des Saints-Cœurs – Jbeil
Ecole Officielle – Fidar
Ecole Officielle – Jal el-Dib
Ecole Officielle – Sid el Bauchrieh
École Officielle Abou Chabké – Zouk
École Officielle des filles – Raml El Tharif
Ecole Officielle el Bourji Quatrième
Ecole Officielle- Emilie Sersouk- Jnah
École Officielle Mixte – Ras Beyrouth
Ecole Officielle Chiyah- Premiere
Ecole Officielle Ghbayreh- Deuxieme
Ecole Officielle Ghbayreh – Garçons
Ecole Officielle- Renée Mouawad
Ecole Officielle- Omar Zoueinni mixte
IC Collège Ain Aar
Institut technique Mgr. Kortbawi – Adma
Louise Wegmann
Notre Dame des Anges
Notre Dame des Sœurs Antonine Baabda
Saint Enfant – Jésus Besançon Baabdat
Sainte Famille – Jounieh
Sainte Famille Zalka
Until 2012, the four below schools have signed the petition and received a Reward Certificate from the WHO and TFI entitling them as “Schools Free from Tobacco, Schools Healthy for your Children”.
- Ecole de la Jeune fille du Liban
- Notre Dame des Sœurs Antonines – Baabda
- Soeurs des Saints Cœurs – Hadad
- Saints Cœurs Kfarhbab
