Post-workshops message from our Founder & Director Nousha Kabawat
As 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 ❤
