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A beacon of Hope – Guest post by Shamimah Mussa

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I remember our bus driving through a myriad of twisting and turning paths and alleyways as we neared the school we would be based at for the day. Along the way, I caught eyes with a cluster of small children, sat by the roadside, I remember waving and being greeted with enormous smiles, some would excitedly chase the bus till we parked outside the school until the once small crowd had multiplied tenfold.

Walking into the dimly lit hall, we were welcomed with hundreds of bright eyes and even brighter smiles. Countless small faces filled with anticipation and curiosity, they would flock around and eagerly extend their hands for a ‘high five’.

It was so incredibly heart-warming to know that most of the children had been waiting for an entire year to spend just a single day with the Project Amal ou Salam team. These children who had come from worlds filled with conflict, loss and destruction – with very little to smile about – had found happiness in our company. (more…)

Summer workshops in Lebanon

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Our Summer workshops in Lebanon are coming soon!
Want to volunteer with the #ChildrenOfSyria next 24-30 August? Apply now to join Project Amal ou Salam.
If you’re a returning volunteering, just let us know via email. Please use the subject: “Workshops L19”
If you’re applying for the first time, please send your CV & a motivation letter 
To: projectamalousalam@gmail.com 
Subject: “Volunteer application L19 – Name Surname”
Tell us how you learnt about us, why you want to volunteer with us and what personal contribution you want to bring to our work.
We will review applications as they come in, therefore, first come, first served will apply.

Deadline: 14 July 2019

More info about volunteering with us here.

Keep spreading the love!

 

Post-workshops message from our Founder & Director Nousha Kabawat​

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IMG_4516As another week with the Project Amal ou Salam team ends in Lebanon, I cannot help but look back at our journey over the past four years.

Exactly four years ago I collected some money, bought some supplies and convinced some friends to join me on the Syrian-Turkish border dreaming of giving the ChildrenOfSyria who now lived there just a tiny little bit of hope – just a tiny little sense of belief that they would be OK.

Four years later, we welcomed 33 international volunteers from all around the world to our workshops in Lebanon.

Some of them are passionate about Syria; some are passionate about children; some believe in the importance of education; and some just want to be able to one day tell their children that they didn’t just sit back and watch as humanity crumbled around them.

The one thing that everyone has in common is passion. Passion to bring about change.

I watched, day after day, the children’s reactions to these 33 volunteers that had pressed the pause button on their “normal lives” to come be with them. And what an inspiring reaction it was.

The children’s instant connection to the volunteers and the volunteers instant love for the children, despite a cultural barrier and not speaking the same language, is a reminder that the world can be a beautiful place – we just need to be passionate enough to believe we can make it one.

Thank you to the amazing Project Amal ou Salam ambassadors that I am so blessed to be able to call my family.

Thank you for supporting my crazy ideas, for trusting my vision, for pushing me to think bigger and most importantly for giving the Children of Syria Hope and reminding us all that we are all in this together.

Because without Hope we have nothing.

Keep spreading the love ❤