Previously we told you about our partnering with Mercy Corps to help get a shipment of toys donated by Hasbro to Jordan for the Syrian children there. A story was just published in the Huffington Post about the toys and how they have touched the children. It includes photos and more information about the situations...
Category: UNICEF
How Art Is Helping Children in One Syrian Refugee Camp
This is the first in a series co-produced by Syria Deeply and Hyperallergic, investigating the visual and cultural responses to the crisis in Syria. Among the many disquieting truths that appear in the sprawling report from the Za’atari refugee camp recently penned by the New Yorker’s David Remnick, an exchange with a UNICEF official Dominique...
A generation is at risk
I turn on the news every day and all I hear is who has the arms who has the control and who is helping who – what country is involved and how many mercenaries are in the country and from where. But really to me the most important thing is the next generation – THE...
Orphans of War
The pictures that you see are going to be the new generation of Syrian. These are the orphans they have lost their families and their relatives. Usually, in the Middle East we do not have what is called adoption as here in the US or other places. In the Middle East since it is usually...
You think you know what it will be like, but you can’t even imagine the reality
The numbers are so daunting that you can’t imagine the strain on a single country to be taking in so many refugees in such a short period of time. In the last week we have been getting in over 3,000 Syrian refugees a day- the number used to be 700. The fighting is increasing in...
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Refugee Learning Center Concept Note
CONCEPT NOTE Name of the Project Learning Center for Syrian refugee children in Jordan Date: January 2013 I. Background and relevance of Action Since April 2011, thousands of Syrian families have been fleeing their homes and communities – going to the closest country across the borders. The war and violence in Syria have driven these...
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....
Conditions in Syria
Please watch this video taken before the summer and realize this camp is now completely full and another camp is being constructed nearby to help alleviate the over crowding. Consider donating to help provide supplies for the women and children who make up the vast majority of people in these camps. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erbxs4PJ-IM&w=560&h=315]
War in our time is always indiscriminate…
This is a different blog today and it is an appeal- Howard Zinn said “War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.” We at Caravan-Serai Tours and Salaam Cultural Museum have joined other international organizations in trying to help the innocent people of Syria: the women and children...
Report on Syrian Crisis
I talked to a friend of my daughter today that lives in Aleppo, Zuka. We are trying to convince her to leave, but she says she can’t go by herself and leave her family behind. She is the only one in the family that has a passport. Even with a war going on you need...
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