Meet the people our partner churches and organizations serve on a daily basis.
September 23, 2019
MEET HASSAN “My name is Hassan and I am from Syria. I live here in Lebanon with my sister and my two sons, Hussein and Ali. Their mother had a heart attack almost a year ago, and she passed […]
November 23, 2018
MEET AHMAD “We are originally from a small village near Aleppo. We had a big family who loved us and took care of my son Ahmad[1], who has a physical disability. Life in Lebanon has been very harsh. We lived […]
November 6, 2018
MEET AMINA “My name is Amina, I am 29 and I am an Iraqi refugee in Lebanon. I came to Lebanon in 2014 with my husband and our five-year-old son, because ISIS was in our area. For a while, we […]
October 20, 2018
MEET DIMA “Before the war in Syria, life was decent although we were not living in luxury. My husband was a painter, and I was a housewife. When the war started we witnessed very scary things: kidnappings, fighting, airplanes flying […]
September 13, 2018
MEET MANAL ” The last morning I saw my husband, he was getting ready to go do his job as a bus driver and I begged him not to. We lived with our young daughter in Homs, Syria, and there […]
June 26, 2018
MEET SANAA “Our daughter Sanaa is ten years old. We are from Aleppo, but had to escape with our other daughter to a safer place in Syria. There were many explosions in our area and Sanaa witnessed one from so […]
May 11, 2018
MEET FAYCAL ” My name is Omar[1] and I am a father of three, two boys and a girl. The neighborhood we were living in was heavily targeted and attacked during the war, and we lost our house. But the […]
February 17, 2018
MEET HALA “My name is Hala. I am married and have two daughters, respectively 5 and 4 years-old. We left our village in the Aleppo countryside in Syria 10 months ago. Our house was destroyed. I was afraid for my […]
January 13, 2018
MEET GHASSAN “With the raging war in Syria and many incidents in my village, most of the farmers abandoned their land. I understand them but I could never possibly abandon my land! I believe that the owner of the […]
December 29, 2017
MEET ADNAN “I was a 54 year old man working as a taxi driver in Syria, living with my wife Amena and our three suns. Our elder boy , Mohammed, was studying English literature in the university. Tarek, 15, […]