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World Refugee Day 2021
In the Middle East and Eastern Europe World Vision has been supporting children and their families who have been
forcibly displaced for decades.
For World Refugee Day 2021,
we stop, for an instant, to listen to those children, feel their fragility on the move across our region, hear their stories and those who are serving them each and every day.
We all know that life can change #InAnInstant.
Providing a window of hope
We promise
to tell your stories.
Watch as Waad, a 29-year-old Syrian refugee living in Lebanon, speaks with Maria Bou Chaaya,
Communications Officer for World Vision Lebanon.
She talks about clinging to hope and to her dreams
for the future.
Advocating
for children and
their families
Hope despite a thousand cuts
Alexandra Matei, Advocacy and Communications Director for Syria Response
Since the beginning of times, the Bible has guided humankind on what is just and not; what is good and bad. The modern world integrated these teachings into what we now know as Universal Human Rights, Convention of the Rights of the Child, or international humanitarian and human rights laws. These legally binding (and in some cases unbinding) standards are expected to regulate the governments’ behavior towards its citizens in the same fashion the Bible supports each one of us, in choosing right and showing kindness to the most estranged person – like those seeking a safe haven from violence, persecution and abuse.
There are 80 million people who have been ‘estranged’ from their homes as we speak.[1] Almost 7 million of them are Syrians[2] who have left their country, carrying just hope as their luggage – they could not carry anything else when they rushed in the middle of the night to save their lives. “The heavy bombardment pushed us out of our home. I remember one of the times we had to move – it was during the month of Ramadan while we were fasting. We had to stay in a tent and the weather was very hot, my brothers were sick because of the severe heat and the constant bombing,” 19 year old Sarah* recalls. (...)
Read the full article: Hope despite a thousand cuts | View | World Vision International (wvi.org)
Perpetual motion:
Source. Transit.
Destination.
Ramez* and Aisha* arrived in Turkey to seek a better life away from the conflict in Syria
Guardian Angels at work in Child Friendly Spaces in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Together with WFP 1,000 families are being supported in Bardarash refugee camp in Iraq
Amplifying and supporting Syrian refugee voices in Lebanon
The children of Syria
are paying an unacceptable price.
Syria’s youth want to protect the future of the generation coming after them, which they fear is also on the brink of being lost. They do not want promises, but a concrete and realisable commitment that can help them to restore their country, their lives and their hopes.
Countries can and do rise again, and with your engagement and support we are confident that the children of Syria will live a life in all its fullness once again.
World Vision Middle East and Eastern Europe is connecting children and their families to their dreams, building their capacity and creating opportunities for them to build better futures.
Rahma, 10, is a Syrian refugee. She knows nothing but conflict and lived most of her live as a refugee.
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