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THE BAATH
VANGUARDS ORGANIZATION
The
Baath Vanguards Organization is one of the many fruitage of the
blessed Correctionist Movement and a gift granted by our father
the great leader «Hafez AI Assad»
to the children of our country. The Organization established
itself during a short period of time to be sufficiently worthy
to meet the confidence of The Party and the great leader to
confront the augmenting responsibilities and the increasing
tasks in the children's pedagogy. the national and socialistic
education, this worthiness can been seen through out what the
organization achieved and looked forward to, It is Justified to
consider the organization of the Baath Vanguards as an important
national and adductive achievement on march of children through
the regulative aspects and the effectiveness of the Organization
in it's adherence to the sublime causes of our people.
When
education becomes part and parcel of the future and to gain the
confidence that our children will have the steady foot on the
right way and their different activities in the frame of their
creative will as they obtain the education of the new policy
which can pave the way to the outstanding creativeness of the
children and show the original glow which sparks out as the
children stickup to their reality and determine to participate
in what is known as self-establishment and echo-system and early
obtain the realities through a national prospective and in
response to the abundant context of the children organization in
movement which contribute to the comprehensive social
development.
The
organization was established in august 1974 due to a decree
issued by The Regional Leadership which expresses the faith of
our great party in an organization sponsored by the party itself
inorder to be an educational and doctrinal school for the coming
generation, the idiology of the party will be learnt by the
children, in this case the Baath Vanguards will guarantee a
continuance flow of the revolution's donation and to grant the
continuity of The Baath Party a generation after generation
during that The Organization of Vanguards reached to the primary
school all over the country till the end of the primary school.
It
played a distinctive role on The Organizing level, It avoided
the inconsistency that children may suffer from politically and
intellectually to guarantee the early belief in the creed of the
party and it's role in building the society of unity, liberty
and socialism. The Organization laid down the principles and
goals of it's activities. The unity of political and idiological
thought in approaching the decisive causes and the every day
matters in away that the vanguards comprehend and to help them
to make clear cut attitudes and guarantee their contribution as
they work hard inorder to build and liberate; by that our
generation will get rid of the intellectual inconsistency and
fragmentation as we suffer from their vestiges uptill now. To
upbring the children to be nationalistic and socialistic in
their moralities and behaviors and to prefer the interest of the
other people rather their own and to commit themselves to the
submoralities which means the productivities of the work as a
basic factor in developing the society.
Educating the vanguards to organize their daily life, at school
in the street and at home. Educating the vanguards to believe in
the necessity of contribution in all fields and to help them to
obtain the vital skills as they get use of their theoretical
knowledge in favour fever of applying them; By doing that such
skills will result in serving the society.
Educating the vanguards to adopt the spirit of a teamwork in
accordance with the values of the unified social Arab society
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forming the factional vision in aware adopting the idiolgy of
the party taking into consideration that the vanguards are the
sons of the party and they have the right to feel prids and
glory, in their capacity as a new active human, instead of being
just careless small children.
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Educating the vanguards to feel joyful and happy at work since
they are beneficial and productive and to maximize the desire of
work and cooperation and believe in the benefit of The Nation.
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Educating the vanguards to search and encourage the spirit of
creativity and to enhance the invention spirit.
The
Organization had deduced the doctrinal principles to achieve
it's causes from the following:
I)
Ideology of the party and schedule of the national and regional
conference which show the way to The Organization and it's
structure.
2)
Decrees of the regional leadership The Organization laid down a
plan aims at the following.
I. To
act inorder to fulfill the strategy of the vanguards activities
according to the principles of the party and the directions or
the general secretor\ of the party.
II.
Enhancing the educational and political aspects of the
educational process as a step towards considering the vanguard's
education as a complement to the scientific one and connect the
abstract science with their applications.
The
inclusion of organization, of the vanguards to cover all the
primary schools It is to be noted that some aspects of the
vanguards achievements are embodied in two main aspects:
1) The
mass feature of the vanguards work with the educational family,
at schools and environment and in the local society.
2)
Emphasizing that educating the children is a national
responsibility. The efforts of the concerned parties must work
together with different institutes, establishments and
organizations and with the family and the society to find
solutions for problems of childhood to trespass the
difficulties: the organization could achieve a sort of
cooperation and coordination in this field expressing the real
interaction between the mass and The Baath Vanguards these two
aspects report that activities and achievements of The
Organization are socially and educationally emphasized.
To
prove what have been mentioned above we highlight the
organization's achievements on the political, educational, and
on the organizing levels, in addition to the statistics related
to different prospectives, concerning prominent decrees. Acts
issued while the organization has been playing it's role in
peoples democracy.
The
Baath Vanguards Organization is an important achievement for the
children's life in Syria. It was established to serve childhood
in it's different aspects and needs. The Organization plays it's
role and offer its services taking into consideration that it is
wholly responsible about the generation of the primary school in
Syria, it sponsors the activities of the children. It organizes
and directs the activities of children in a way that guarantees
the benefit of the children.
Organizing and preparing fields: 2,297750 male and female
vanguards are now members of The Baath Vanguards Organization
97,958 male and female supervisors.
The
total number of the vanguards who joined The Organization from
1974 to 1990 is: 16,956,746 vanguards.
In 1974
the administrative structure of The Baath Vanguards was laid
down and attached to its organizing structure and to its
relation with the Ministry of Education, leadership of the
branches of The Baath Vanguards have been formed and a deputy
minister of education for the vanguards affairs was assigned and
attached The Baath Vanguards Organization, like wise assistant
directors of education in the governates and in 1978 the
regional committees started its work in monitoring the units
(school). The bylaws of primary schools and institutes of
qualifying teacher were modified and certain decrees and systems
of the ministry of education and its directorates were adjusted
for the purpose of the continuity of the vanguards organizing
system in the period of the basic pedagogy and in this context
the regional leadership carried on the task and paved the way to
issue the organization's decree and '0 lay down its rules of
procedures, the organizing manifesto was made on the light of
the decree project which was prepared in 1978, other rules of
procedures Were enacted for different establishments of the,
organization, specialized offices, camps, practical school,
activity centers the vanguards club, institutes for preparing
the leading figures, cinema club, the regional festival.
To
emphasize on practicing people's democracy in the field of
vanguards education; the organization adopted the following
procedures:
a) The
vanguards councils.
b) The
election of vanguard monitors followed by sessions to prepare
monitores.
c) The
regional symposium, which is the annual organizing conference on
the region level.
The
first regional symposium for The Baath Vanguards was held in
Tartus city 1977.
The
18th regional symposium was held in «Daraa» in 1994. The
leadership of The Baath Vanguards Organization then studied the
organizing formula and found that the organization had developed
on a large scale on the organizing and educating levels, its
activities were increased and deep-rooted in our society and our
nation, it suggested to be named by the annual conference for
The Baath Vanguards, so the 19th annual conference for The Baath
Vanguards was held in «Edleb» in august 1995.
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guarantee the leading and specialize preparation of the people
who are working in the organization; the following sessions were
held.
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Sessions for the male and female vanguards through out the
summer vacation for the male and female 5th class vanguards.
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Holding specialized sessions in the field of all activities, we
prepare through out these sessions 2000 male and female
supervisors holding the leading and serial sessions annually.
Sessions for assistant supervisors, division, division
supervisors, unit assistants supervisors unit supervisors, area
supervisors, camp, assistant leaders 10,000 supervisors are
qualified annually.
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Unification of supervising, organizing and educating party with
The Ministry of Education and The Ministry of Higher Education,
for the scholastic administrative sessions and educational
directives, national culture's teachers and the education
college and the social science.
In this
context the effort exerted for the coordination with The
Ministry of Education resulted in :
1 - The
executive manifesto for the practical schools of the vanguards
activities.
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Training the students of the sports college in camps.
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Preparing the courses of the practical schools.
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Preparing the internal manifesto for the college of leading
personals.
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Preparing courses for training the leading personals.
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Preparing joint plans with directorate of the on-going training.
Since 1990 the organization leadership in cooperation with the
Ministry of Education have held the annual specialized courses:
1 - The
technique of cultural work with children.
2- The
puppet show theatre.
3- Fine
Arts.
4-
Technical Education.
7 - In
the field of scientific courses 161 courses for supervisors have
been held. 2700 courses for vanguards have been held.
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the field of the children establishment its facilities and
activities.
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organization installed permanent camp for children distributed
on the country's governates (14 governates ).
Each
camp includes buildings, and encampments and auditoriums to
practice the scientific artistic, cultural technical, sportive,
entertaining activities, a theatre exhibition halls, swimming
pools, play-grounds. kitchens, a mess equipped with the latest
equipments and a medical center which offers the necessary
medical services, Each camp hosts 2000 - 3000 children,
The
camps were forested with more than 972155 forest trees and
103435 fruit trees in addition to growing grains, vegetables,
and cotton at some camps, The organization opened more than 2200
winter clubs specialized in computer ; electronics electricity,
solar energy, agriculture, music and other sorts of arts, 7150
summer clubs located in the Gove mates where children make use
of their leisure time.
The
Organization built more than 35 schools to patron the pioneers
and the talented children in different fields, They are well
equipped and prepared to host thousands of pioneers and talented
children, these schools are known as the practical ones, for the
vanguards activities the organization built a specialized
institute in Homs to qualify the supervisors and leaders who
will help the children in their activities The Organization
opened more than 1086 centers for the activities and established
dozens of gardens in the governates where the children may go
and practice and play games and take-in knowledge through the
theatrical, cultural and sportive activities. they are well
equipped, all children can be invited to get advantage of that
establishments.
As for
the camps; every vanguard starting with the litth class can join
them where food, clothes, accommodation, transportation and all
kinds of these facilities are free of charge a quarter of a
million child Join camps annually, the population of Syria is 14
million citizens and the number of children is about three
millions. The number of trainers and trainees is about 150 there
their different productive establishments belong to The
Organization like the workshop of making the vanguard uniforms,
studies for photography and child's library, theatre, child
cinema clubs, and accessory shops part of the profit is
dedicated to units and branches.
In the
field of culture and arts :
In 1985
The Organization issued a monthly magazine for the children with
the title of «The Vanguard» then publishing postponed due to the
shortage of printing papers. In 1993 the publishment of the
magazine resumed and opened a publication house and these are
the following printed matters:
- The
narrative series for children.
- Arab
scientists series.
- The
scientific series.
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Anthems series.
- The
theatrical series for children.
- The
poetic series for children.
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Educational studies series for supervisors.
- The
seminar search series.
More
than 90 series for children were published, more than 90 titles
from these children serieses were issued and more than 120tit1es
for supervisors The Organization as well as published 26 books
about the theatrical, poetical and lyrical which were presented
at the annual regional festivals all that were published.
There
are cultural centers for children in every camp and every
partical school to provide the children with the needed cultural
services perusal hall and a show room for cinema and t.v., a
theatre stage and a gallery. Since 1981 The Organization opened
cinema clubs dedicated for children, the number of these clubs
reached up to 22 ones distributed on the Gove mates centers and
on some districts these clubs present movies for the children
and the teachers and the specialized stoff a adhere to develop
the children cinematic appreciation during and after the end of
the movies in the presence of the directors and the cinema
critics. The Organization gave the cultural and artistic
activities their mass education and social provisions; through
the vanguards festivals which became national phenomenon's where
the citizens and the educational family exert their efforts to
take care of the children and to increase the services presented
to them. At the meantime The Organization have dozens of
children theatres stages located at the centers of it's
activities, exhibiting annually hundreds of artistic works,
taking advantage of the different kinds of children theatre like
opera-theatre and the variety theatre and the puppet show
theatre, the shadow theatre and the theatre of mature people
presented for children and the folkloric arts and the song of
the Arab child.
The
number of children plays which were published "nd presented
reached up to 320 plays they belong to the field of opera-
theatre.
180
plays were perfonned by mature people and dedicated for the
children. /295/ plays of puppet show theatre /282/ plays for the
shadow theatre. /430/ folkloric dances. /210/variety sections,
and /420/ songs for the Arab child and /130/ musical bands, /75/
brass bands. /28/ rhythmical bands and /45/ collective chanting
bands. As with concern to the field of radio and t.v. : there
are four weekly t. v. Programs the duration of each one is /15/
minutes a weekly t.v. Program and a thirty minutes weekly t.v.
Program and a special weekly program depicts the activities of
The Regional Festivals its duration ranges between /30/ to /45/
minutes in addition to the specialized programs in accordance
with the national educational and social events. The total
number of these programs reached up during the past fifteen
years to :
/2880/
radio programs; and /780/ special t.v. Programs in addition its
programs and activities the organization developed new methods
for the child's culture and extended its efforts in field of
children's get-together. In view of the fact that it considered
to be insignificant cost and its increasing influence, socially
and educationally. The Organization as well as increased its
activities in the field of artistical and inclinational
education by participating with children's works in
international fairs since 1978, hundreds of children won the
prizes at these fairs, in addition to that The Organization
organizes hundreds of specialized local, and subsidery fairs and
they were rich with many talents.
In the
field of social development, and environment protection : The
Organization dedicated a special office for these affairs since
1979 «the technical and environmental office» this office is
concerned with increasing the children's and the teenaged
efforts in these aspects through:
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Supporting the environment hygienic and social education.
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Supporting the local environment project's services and
developing the local societies.
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Enhancing the self-management activities in the capacity that
the vanguards units are considered to be a source of inspiration
in its environment and its society.
It is
not an easy task to give a specific statistic number of these
programs and projects which were distributed allover the cities
and the counrysides.
Hundreds thousands of children are participating in executing
them. The Organization won The United Nation's Environment prize
in 1990.
The
Organization's leadership held two specialized seminars to
evaluate the outcome of working with children in regard of these
fields: they are «The Baath Vanguards and the protection of the
Environment» Lattakia 1985. Then published the lectures and
other documents in two books. We can reckon the services aspect
which donated to the children at The Baath Vanguards
Organization as the following:
1)
Supporting the educational process at the elementary schools
through enriching the substances of the curriculum and its
terminologies with the values of freedom invention and
contemporary and to connect the theoretical knowledge with its
practical aspect, and to train the hand and mind at the same
time.
2) To
carry on with the educational process inside and outside the
school with developed methods which can meet the enhancement's
needs, to build the society on one hand and to build the child's
character taking into consideration its developing elements. To
achieve that, we established administrative and regulative
methods stem from the national and subjective specification and
invented certain procedures activities and methods which can
make the vanguards education a motive to the renewal and the
origination simultaneously and, a way to prove the socially
balanced education between the cities and the "country sides"
and generically between the male and the female "and from a
combative point of view" to adhere to the function of the
national and social education which can cop with our surrounding
conditions.
3) To
give power for the average education for better performance in
its programs by combating the illiteracy and holding up the
infiltration, and pave the way for the most democratic peferable
chances for education and for the sake of a tangible advancement
in the field of enhancing the education to the standard of the
aspired great expectations vis-a-vis the dangerous educational
challenges due to the Zionist occupation for the Arab lands to
the venturesome of the cultural's sub-ordination, and the wasted
Arab development through the regional disparity and squandering
the Arab energy and the paradoxical situation among the Arab
societies from one region to another. Undoubtedly the education
in Syria is suffering from this situation too.
4)
Increasing the services for children by adding more educational
cultural artistic and sports establishments, qualifying more
leading persons, and connecting such services to live up to the
required expectations.
5)
Developing programs and techniques by activating the cultural
and educational aspects of the child and making the vanguard
education a national work. That's can be done by a renovating
the ways we deal with the child, taking into consideration that
the child is the core of the whole process of the vanguard
education. So the programs must stem out from the real needs for
a sane child in our society. Such approach would respond to the
new educational needs, which aim at an original, stable and
comprehensive education.
6) A
special care is taken for the small vanguards «first, second and
third grades» whose human personality is being formed so special
programs and techniques are applied.
7)
Connecting the vanguards upraising to life and work, so programs
on social development and environmental protection are made and
the abstract knowledge is connected to its practical educations.
8)
Taking care of the value system of the vanguard education. And
promoting a set of values to ensure the desired values like the
national, cultural, spiritual, moral and social values.
9)
Focusing on the child's knowledge through two perspectives
«originating and spreading» originating the national identity
and enhancing the cultural personality of The Arab Nation, also
spreading the knowledge by the different available means to the
mass of children through clear perspective since the child's
knowledge is a service everybody must get advantage of.
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Taking care of the international relations on the level of a
work among children. The organization is has worked to been to
enhance the values of the cultural, human exchange between the
Syrian children and the rest of the children allover the world.
The Organization has made many friendly relationships with the
international and regional organizations. The Baath Vanguards
Organization is a member of the leading counsil of the world
children Organization (simia) since 1986 the organization
exchanges with other organization every year and it encourages
the ways of communications among children. Every year it hosts
dozens of delegations in it's camps where
different kinds of communications are arranged for the mass of
children in Syria such as parties, exhibitions, and special
events. In 1986, The Organization held the first exhibition of
the child's arts as children from 373 countries took part in it.
In 1988 it hosted simia meeting as representatives from five
continents took part.
11) The
Organization adopts the knowledge of sex for males and females
in order to maintain an open and creative knowledge and avoid
the sex discrimination.
Males
and females would share one spirit and have the same set of
values to allow common chances in all fields.
The
organization believes in the fact that increasing the children
services would contribute to the national development, and it
exerts great efforts to enhance the strategy of the Arabic
education enlarge the exchange among The Arabs and declare the
essential, educational status for the future of The Arabs.
The
Baath Vanguard Organization has alway looked forward to play an
effective role in the life of the nation and to enhance the
cooperation with other parties Who share in educating children
in our society.
HEAD OF
BAATH
VANGUARDS ORGANIZATION
AHMMAD
ABU MUSSA
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