Please help us raise funds to pay for urgently needed food bundles for 100 Syrian refugee families living in makeshift, unofficial camps across Beqaa Valley, Lebanon.  Lockdown means families with young children are now facing hunger and potentially life threatening consequences.  Last year Sheffield Hallam University students were fortunate enough to travel to meet some amazing teachers and families at a refugee school and now these friends desperately need
our help.

• £17 will pay for food for one family for ONE month.   
• £34 will pay for food for one family for TWO months.  
• £51 will pay for food for one family for THREE months.

The bundle of emergency food will contain essentials such as pasta, rice, lentils, flour, oil and tomato paste.

BACKGROUND

Already living in extreme poverty, lockdown has hit Syrian refugees in Beqaa Valley particularly hard.  Families who had to leave everything behind when the conflict destroyed their homes now cannot leave the camps to find the labouring work which was keeping them afloat, and they are solely reliant on outside help. 

SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY

Last year 19 of our students travelled to Beqaa to make a series of awareness raising films about life in the camps.  We collaborated with a group of amazing and inspiring teachers and children at a camp school in Zahle, Beqaa and were changed forever by the friendship and
warmth we received by staff and families.  The work carried out at this fantastic school provides Syrian children with the opportunity of reaching further education and building a future.

We now want to be able to help the families at the school through this time of crisis.  Thank you so much for your generosity!

For more information about work carried out at the school please see: https://www.childrenontheedge.org/lebanon-education-for-syrian-refugee-children.html

If you would like to see collaborative film written
and starring teachers and pupils at the school here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oBfCmKp_kI

LEBANON

Lebanon is finding it increasingly difficult to support refugees.  Over the past months there has been civil unrest, nationwide demonstrations, the Lebanese pound has collapsed and the country has fallen into major economic crisis intensified by coronavirus lockdown measures. 45 percent of the country is now in poverty.   Against this backdrop Syrian refugees are desperately struggling once again for their survival.

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