In a tent they were gathered, naked and barefoot, an internally displaced family from Al Raqqa, a widow with her three kids, her sick mother, and aunt. The outreach volunteers attached to the Syrian Society for Social development found the family exposed to burning sun in an empty space of land in Um Al Fursan Neighborhood, Al Qamishli City, and invited her to Beit…

“As the proverb goes: Life consists of two days, one for you and one against you. Alas, days were always against me… “expressed Mr. N A in one of the Hear-My-Heart Programme sessions for men.

Mr. NA, a single young man born in 2000, was an IDP from the area of Tal Ahmad. He lived with his orphaned nephews in an unfinished house that…

A.TH is a 17-year old young man coming from an internally displaced family.Speaking about his life, he always used the word “loser”, particularly when referring to his failures: failing the ninth-grade national exam, dropping out of school, and being admitted into Khaled Ibn Al-Waleed Juvenile Center for abusing and selling drugs.

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Here is a real-life story of a young girl, Shahed Zuhair Othman, a 15- year-old, coming from a big family, three sisters, three brothers and the parents.

 The family had to flee to Al-Boubiyeh village for one year due to force majeure in Al-Hader village, the family’s home town…

Marah, Mohammed, Farah, and Ahmed are siblings aged 19,18, 17 and 15. Their close-knit relationship and support are impressive and this manifested when their mother passed away in 2005, the eldest sibling Marah was only 6 years and the youngest, Ahmed, was 2 years; the mother’s death prompted them to stick together sharing responsibilities…

Fatima and Aisha, nine-year-old twins, fled with their family from eastern rural Aleppo to Jaramana city in Damascus. They were stripped of all what they possess, including their education, safety, friends, and the foundations that provide the twins’ most basic rights, and were left with nothing but diffidence. After the SSSD’s ORV team…

Bayan is a 14-year-old displaced from Jissr Alshoughour to Lebanon. Like all displaced children, she left school without attending any other, but one of the NGOs there helped her learn how to read and write. Several years later, Bayan and her family, except her father, moved to…

Rabih is a 13-year-old boy who lives with his small family in Ras al-Naba'a in the city of Banias, belongs to a poor social environment in which the head of household works as a builder while the mother is a housewife. He was born blind and away from the simplest means of communication and education because the lack of knowledge of his parents about the possibility…

Alaa Mahmoud, a 10-year-old female child, suffering from Down syndrome, her 9-member family fled Sbenieh around 5 years ago and moved to Al-Mazarae neighborhood, Jaramana.

One of the mother’s friends who regularly attended sessions and activities at Athar Al-Farashah Community…

Majd B., a young man in his twenties, lives with his family in a popular neighborhood of the city of Banias. Unemployed, he had no source of income either to support himself or help his father provide for the large family. Majd’s parents would have never expected that their careless son would become a successful, reliable man, running…

Hasan, a 15-year old, lost his parents and fled his home. He was deprived of warmth, his home city, where he grew up. War had its toll on him, his younger siblings and his elder brother and his family (wife and kids), they all fled to Damascus Suburbs, where they lived in a company in Adra Industrial City Hasan arrived to Damascus, without…

Mr. Akram, a 63-year-old retired employee, is a new return to Al Hosen with his family of four and his elderly mother with special needs in a house in the bush far from the city's serviced residential area. Mr. Akram was identified after his visit to the community center in Al-Hosn and explained his conditions and taking all the information…