September 7, 2026
MEET MIRA My parents, my brother, and I came to Lebanon shortly before the war in Syria started, and we settled here in the Beqaa valley. We went through many difficulties. I used to work, and I would come home […]
June 30, 2025
June 30, 2025
Recognizing the risks Within the last few years of crises in Lebanon, all types of gender-based violence (GBV) have been on the rise, and refugee women and girls are at disproportionate risk of suffering from it. Refugee girls and women […]
June 2, 2025
MEET HALA My name is Hala. I have been teaching adult literacy to Syrian refugee women for years. Some were really starting from scratch and didn’t even know the letters. Some others went to school in Syria for a few […]
May 5, 2025
MEET AMINA We lost our home very suddenly in the war, as a shell fell on it and turned it into a pile of debris. We came out from under the rubble, in complete shock. We walked for a long […]
July 16, 2024
April 4, 2024
March 8, 2024
MEET RAYA We are originally from the city of Afrin in Syria. We were forced to flee in 2011, and moved to the Idlib province, where we stayed for four years. During this time, we couldn’t attend any school and […]
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 […]
October 8, 2021
MEET IMANE Imane and her four children outside their appartment We are from the countryside of Aleppo, Syria, but we fled seven years ago, ever since ISIS came to our area. ISIS used to cut off heads in public. They […]