June 21, 2023
MEET HUSSEIN Illustrative picture © Lisanne van der Schors for Medair My name is Hussein and I am from the Latakia Governorate in northwestern Syria. I have three sisters and two brothers, most of them married and living with their […]
June 15, 2023
MEET SALWA Sara (right) and her friends at our partner child friendly space in Mhardeh My name is Salwa, I am married and have two children, Walid and Sara, who are 9 and 6 years old. My husband is an […]
May 6, 2023
MEET NOUR Badee (left) and Nour (right) are in charge of the relief projects of their church in Tartous, Syria My name is Nour and I help Badee, who leads our church in Tartous, with the relief projects of the […]
April 11, 2023
MEET PASTOR ABDALLAH When the earthquake happened all the people in the city experienced the biggest fear, especially as several strong aftershocks kept on hitting the city. The people went as far as possible from the buildings and it was […]
March 1, 2023
All through the month of February, multiple earthquakes and aftershocks hit Turkey and Syria, killing, injuring, and displacing tens of thousands of people in the middle of a winter storm. In Syria, the earthquakes came on top of a cholera […]
September 9, 2022
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 […]
May 16, 2022
MEET SAHAR My name is Sahar. I am the program coordinator and case manager of a project that supports and empowers women at my church here in Syria. As a project that advocates against gender-based violence, our main goal is […]
April 20, 2022
MEET KHALED Khaled and his family in front of their tent in Syria, greeting the church’s representative visiting them. My name is Khaled and my wife and I have eight children. Before the conflict, my family and I were considered […]
April 6, 2022
This past month and a half were marked by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, we know too well what it is to experience war and care for refugees and internally displaced people, and our hearts […]
March 24, 2022
“As a deer longs for a stream of cool water”, so do the families we serve long for spring and the relief that it brings to have made it through one more harsh winter. An unusually cold and long winter […]