Your home country is all that you know — it’s where you were raised, where you’ve loved, and where you’ve lived all your years. So what happens when one day, without warning, or without cause, that sense of security is ripped from you? War, violence, persecution for who you are or what you believe; your...
Category: Lebanon
Donation to IHR for Medications
Recently we sent funds to IHR – International Humanitarian Relief, and organization working in Lebanon – to help them buy medications for Syrian refugees there. We received this message of thanks and wanted to share it with you, and thank everyone who has contributed and let you know the funds do go directly to helping...
Extreme Winter Weather Hitting Refugees Hard
This is the second time this year that the Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon have been hit hard by the severe winter weather. During the first two weeks of January 2015 extreme weather conditions for the region hit hard with high winds, and freezing cold in the evenings. Heavy snowfall has collapsed tents, forcing...
Public Health Disaster in Syria
Syria facing ‘medical disaster’ as eradicated diseases return PARIS // Syria is facing a “medical and humanitarian disaster” after nearly four years of war have gutted the country’s health care system, leading to a return of eradicated diseases, a group of Syrian doctors said in Paris on Monday. A lack of doctors, supplies and drugs...
U.N. Cuts Food Aid to Refugees From Syria
More on the unprecedented and disastrous cuts to the World Food Program. Please help by donating $31 to our food drive. For $31 we can provide a package of food basics for a family that will last a month. GENEVA — Facing what it described as a severe cash shortfall, the United Nations food aid...
Quick run-down/first day stats
Here are the numbers from the first day of the current medical mission. We will have more reports shortly. Team split between 2 buildings: 1 team saw 520 patients, mostly Syrians, and a few Palestinians The other team was dental and psych/mental health and saw 130 dental patients and 40 psych. Most patients in this group...
Aid going to refugees crossing in to Lebanon
SCM is supporting International Humanitarian Relief (IHR), an organization that is helping the Syrian refugees in Lebanon. IHR Is working very hard around the clock in order to help the unfortunate displaced Syrians in the border town of Arsal, Lebanon. Salaam Cultural Museum is trying to help and support their efforts as well as other humanitarian...
Syrian mother’s agony: why I made my teenage daughter become a child bride
Shedding light on the motivations behind the epidemic of Syrian child brides, this article is heartbreaking but also gives you a glimpse of what the families are going through that bring them to make such a decision for their daughters. Click here or on the image below to read the entire story.
Refugees fleeing Syria has hit a million
Yesterday the news read “ The number of Refugees fleeing Syria has hit a million” That is about 5 percent of the population of Syria- the population is registered at 22 million people, but there might be more as that was a figure from early 2012. About half the people that are fleeing Syria are...
Syrian Refugees
As the Syrian civil war drags on, fierce fighting continues between the Free Syrian Army . In this war, the non-combatant population must contend with intense fear and danger, “civilians – ordinary men, women and children – are bearing the brunt of the violence.” Mortars fired at villages and urban neighborhoods often land on houses, apartment buildings, and shops....
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