Vision

Empower and engage people in Lebanon to live in dignity and peace based on the respect, protection, and fulfillment of Human Rights.

Mission

Work with people, particularly women and youth to create a more developed and equitable society through reducing poverty, eliminating exclusion, and fostering a culture of peace.

Values

As an organization, LOST is committed to sustainable development with the fulfilment of Human Rights. It has a responsibility to safeguard the people with whom it works based on the following values:

Mutual Respect: Recognizing the innate worth of people
Responsibility and Responsiveness: Being responsible for and responsive to the needs of people
Transparency and Rule of Law: Making rule of law customary and not leisure
Equality and Equity: Ensuring equal opportunity to everyone, irrespective of gender, religion, sect, disability, or age
Independence: Representing LOST’s ethics without an affiliation to any political or religious entity

Our values are applied in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (1993), and other international agreements which uphold the rights of all people including children and women. We are therefore committed to the protection of people from ‘all forms of physical or mental violence, injury and abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual violence’ as outlined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 48/104 of the Declaration of the Elimination of Violence against Women. The policy aims to ensure that all staff and representatives implement policies and procedures which prevent abuse as well as behavior that may be misinterpreted as leading to or constituting abuse.