The
newly appointed webmaster Mohammad Rizk is proudly boasting
his new t-shirt encouraging people to “find out who we
are what we do how you can help: www.redcross.org.lb/youth”.
He will be responsible for updating the website of the Lebanese
Red Cross Youth.
After months of planning, preparations and hard work, a brand
new website for the Lebanese Red Cross Youth was finally launched
in early June. It contains information both targeting the Lebanese
society in general, and the volunteers internally in the Youth
Department. The volunteers are able to contribute to the website
with text and pictures, sharing stories and experiences with
the rest of the world.
The main goals of the website project are to inform the general
society about the activities of the Lebanese Red Cross Youth
and to improve internal communication within the Red Cross Youth.
The web can not solve all problems and challenges of the Youth
regarding communication and sharing of experiences, but will
hopefully improve the current situation, saving the staff and
volunteers from spending hours on the phone of in the car to
get the information needed to do their work, thereby increasing
the capacity.
A website workgroup, consisting of two experienced members of
the Lebanese Red Cross Youth as well as the two Norwegian Youth
Delegates, has been working on the project since November 2004.
All parties in the Youth Department have been included in different
stages of the process. A web designer was hired to design the
website, but planning, structure and content production has
been done by the youth themselves.
In May 2005 two website training workshops were held for the
administration and for the volunteers in the local Youth Centres.
The workshops focused on how to use the website as a tool to
make the volunteer work even more efficient in the future. The
feedback from these workshops showed that the volunteers are
happy with their new communication channel, and hope it will
help centres to cooperate more closely on their activities in
the future.
Promotion material, such as posters, stickers and pens, has
been distributed internally in the Lebanese Red Cross to publicize
the website, which is the biggest of its kind so far in Lebanese
Red Cross history. The First Aid Department promises to follow
suit, and there is now a wider interest in using the web more
actively as a communication channel in the future.
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| Mohammad
the webmaster boosting his new tshirt, promoting the Lebanese
Red Cross Youth website.
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Moukarzel from Antelias doing exercizes trying to find
different kinds of information through the new website
during the website workshop.
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| Volunteers
browsing the web in search of answers to the exercises
during the website workshop. |
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