Jordan
“We educate women because it changes the world”
One in every three marriages between Syrian refugees in Jordan involve a child under the age of 18. Huda is one of these women. This is her story.
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14 AUGUST 2019
Jordan
“Wherever life takes me, I will use my education to get there”
Relief International is one of the leading providers of education inside Jordan’s Za’atari and Azraq refugee camps. Our signature project is a year-long prep course for the Tawjihi, the final exam students are required to take to graduate from high school.
Jordan
Providing Safe Spaces for the Youngest Syrian Refugees
U.N. Children's Fund U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Since the war in Syria broke out in 2011, more than one million Syrian children have been born in exile as refugees. Through strategic partnerships, Relief International established an Early Childhood Education Center in each refugee camp to support the needs of the youngest Syrian refugees.
Lebanon
Delivering Home-Based Care for Lebanon’s Elderly Population
U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Relief International operates one of the few programs in Lebanon dedicated entirely to the care of older people who are among the most vulnerable in fragile settings.
Lebanon
Cash for Education Keeps Refugees in School
Mustafa Al Sayyah, 13, was forced to abandon his education when he became a refugee. Now, he works to earn tips at a local vegetable shop in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. Relief International’s Cash for Education program is working to make sure that other Syrian refugees living in Lebanon don’t have to do the same.
Lebanon
Displaced and Distressed: Delivering Mental Health Support in Arsal, Lebanon
Asmaa, 33, and Mariam, 61, live a five-minute drive away from one another in the small Lebanese border town of Arsal. They have never met, but they have more in common than just the town where they live.
Lebanon
Cash Assistance Helps Meet Syrian Refugees’ Most Urgent Needs
Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley shelters more than 350,000 Syrian refugees, 71% of whom live below the poverty line. Syrian refugee, Yara, who receives cash assistance from Relief International, tells her story.
Lebanon
My Job as a Relief International Volunteer
The hillsides of Arsal still bear physical reminders of the intense fighting that spilled across the Lebanese border with Syria. Marked with scorch marks and half-destroyed buildings, the town has seen better days. For Arsal’s local residents and its Syrian refugee population, both communities carry hidden scars.