MEET JANA Jana and her musical therapist at our partner Child Friendly Space in Homs My family and I live in a crowded neighborhood in Homs, which was subjected to many painful events during the war. This led to a […]
MEET WAFAA Wafaa and her youngest daughter Dounia in front of the church’s education center My name is Wafaa and I am from Syria. We emigrated because of the war and we have been in Lebanon for 10 years now. […]
MEET NAJWA Najwa and her son Samir at the Little friendly space he is enrolled in My name is Najwa, I have 7 children. I am from Aleppo. We fled the suffering and the war and came to Lebanon since […]
After two years of learning being disrupted by COVID-19 lockdowns and the multiple crises Lebanon is facing, about 1,600 out-of-school children have gone back to study in person in the eight learning centers we support in the country. Despite the […]
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the education centers we support in Lebanon have been closed for the past three months. Thanks to the motivation and hard work of the educators, we have helped them implement distance learning, enabling about 1,200 […]
The Syrian crisis has dragged hundreds of thousands of children away from their homes and communities, forcing them to live in places where they face harsh living conditions, are deprived of education opportunities, and do not feel welcomed. In this […]
Out-of-school Syrian children who want to enter the public school system in Lebanon now have a mandatory pathway of entry to catch up on missed education and enter closer to age-level. MERATH is coordinating with the Ministry of Education and […]
MEET ROULA “I was living in a nice house with my husband, our newborn son, and two daughters. One day we were told that ISIS was coming to our neighborhood. I left the house immediately with my children. As we […]