Blog: The Middle East

Holy Land Garden

We started a  new project named Holy Land Gardens!  This project is agriculturally based and creates a training facility for individuals with special needs. We are in the beginning phase of relocating the greenhouse due to a unique set of circumstances.  Since we are in the middle of the prime agricultural season, we hope to use the greenhouse now in a nursery setting.

Refugees in Lebanon

Two months ago, we started our carpentry workshop for boys. This course will offer one year of training. We had 14 students for this year. *Milad is our oldest student. He is 17 years old and he joined our program this month. He said, "I don’t go to school, and I have nothing to do. I go around searching for work, but no one wants to hire me. I have lost hope. Life is very unfair.” I looked at his face and noticed his deep pain.

Goat Loan Programme, Jordan

Um Battma Village 

We started with this family in September. They had received 11 goats. Um Oqaab is married. She and her husband are elderly and have three children, two boys and one girl. 

Their oldest son studies at the university. Their second son just finished high school and their youngest daughter is home.
 

Refugees in Jordan

Yemeni Refugees in Jordan

*Abia is a young woman from Yemen. Abia is married and has three daughters. She fled from Yemen and came to Jordan as a refugee because of the war in Yemen.

Abia is a strong woman.  She is carrying all the responsibilities of the family because her husband has health problems. When he was in Yemen,  an unknown group attacked him and beat him on his head and injured him so he can’t work.
 

House of Ruth, Jordan

Computer class

Approaching the end of this course, the teacher is seeing great progress in his students’ skills using the computer. As usual, he focuses on students who do not own a computer or have never used the computer at all before.

In this group, there are many students who have not used a computer. For Laith, the teacher, it's a joy to see them happy as they are learning new things and enjoying their time in the classroom.

Refugees in Lebanon

Clinic Update

Vocational Training Programme, Jordan

Iraqi Stories 

*Adani is an Assyrian-Iraqi married man from Tilisqof, Iraq, who used to work as an electrician in Iraq. They have been in Jordan for three years, and the situation is hard. They are not able to work and pay for their daily life expenses. Adani’s 25-year-old daughter is an artist who paints oil paintings. We had lunch with them, and it was very delicious. 

Refugees in Jordan
 

Families Adopting Families 

*Milad is an Iraqi man who lived with his wife *Lava in Qaraqosh, Iraq which is in Nineveh Valley. He was injured back in the 1990s during the Iran-Iraq war which resulted in a lot of surgeries of heart and liver making him a crippled man. His wife is crippled, too, because of a pelvic fracture that happened in a bus accident.

House of Ruth, Jordan

English Class

Refugees in Jordan

Yemeni Refugees in Jordan