From three Governorate, they came together to acquire modern media skills and serve their cities. Media and communication Department of the ARD. As part of the “Returning with Hope” program, the ARD held three training workshops on “video editing” in Nineveh Governorate, “content writing and managing media teams” in Salah al-Din Governorate, “photography and social media management” in Nineveh Governorate, from 28 to 30 October 2024, with the participation of media teams and employees of the project's partner organizations. The trainings included several concepts about modern media, the concept of media, writing a press report, the impact of journalism in changing societal opinions about humanitarian issues, and the basics required to write on social media. The trainees applied a practical exercise on writing influential success stories, writing the content of humanitarian stories and success stories, managing media teams, developing plans to implement and produce media materials,

1. The trainer, Dr. Hassan Abdullah, stressed that the participants in choosing the most influential success stories in society and addressing them as attractive media content through several journalistic arts that the participants learned in the training, including writing the press article, the press report, the trainer also warned against the abundance of rumors and fake news and called on the trainees to be gatekeepers of the press news, where I supervised the participants' presentation of their products of virtual and real success stories as written media content through the short story, press report and article style and were very good after they received this training. .

The trainees from the three governorates emphasized that these trainings were a qualitative leap in increasing the trainees' experience in the media fields and modern media and how to convey the news, story, report and media content and export it to the community in a positive way that helps them strengthen resilience. Societies in general face many issues regarding the media, media outlets and access to information in general, as there are many pages that broadcast hate speech and rumors in a large way, which affects stability and social cohesion between the layers of society, and one of the goals of these trainings is to promote positive and peaceful content that contributes in one way or another to broadcast smooth and objective materials to cover all media issues and promote access to correct information during the project period, while sharing success stories and humanitarian stories that increase the ability to strengthen community resilience and resilience.