Not so lost in Lebanon: volunteering with refugees
Every two months, a group of around twenty enthusiastic people make their way to Beirut and Saida. Their mission? To
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Author: Jade Tenwick
Spending the weekends with Brussels’ young refugees
A couple of weeks ago, Brussels Express published an article on volunteering with the city’s refugee youth. The article spoke
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Empowering Syrian Refugee Women: a new challenge in a new home
“Now I want to help myself… our parents didn’t try to educate us. Now I can learn and support myself
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#YourDayYourVoice: Refugee voices in light of World Refugee Day
Last Wednesday was World Refugee Day. For this the European Council of Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) decided to ask what
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Refugees in Lebanon: Art providing a glimpse into the world of child brides
As the saying goes ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ and that could not be truer in this day
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A Lost Childhood – Syrian refugees in Lebanon
In Lebanon, there are over 1 million Syrian refugees. There are a number of barriers faced by these people, including maintaining legal status, access to education, work and
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Allowed to dream again
Growing up as a young teenager outside of Aleppo, Baida dreamed of learning how to sew and becoming a fashion
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Child Marriage in Lebanon: A Child Separated From Her Child
The ongoing Syrian conflict has generated the largest refugee crisis in recent history and forced over 5.5 million Syrians to
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A better tomorrow Bukhra Ahla
Lamis is a seventeen-year-old girl. A seventeen-year-old girl who is called ‘the divorced woman’. Yet she is barely a woman.
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Providing education and aid to refugees in the ‘Red Zone’ of Arsal
Arsal, once a town of 35,000 people, now hosts over 70,000 Syrian refugees who have fled conflict to find safety
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