by HQ Team Communication officer | Nov 25, 2019 | Awareness, Belgium
November 20, 2019 marked the 30th anniversary of the signing of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This convention is at the heart of what we do at SB OverSeas, both in supporting refugee children and youth in our schools in Lebanon and in our support...
by HQ Team Communication officer | Sep 2, 2019 | Awareness, Belgium
Working to bridge two refugee realities I often get asked about how it’s possible for a small organisation like SB OverSeas to operate in both Lebanon and Brussels — What’s the connection? Why Lebanon? Why Brussels? We may be a relatively small organisation compared...
by HQ Team Communication officer | Aug 29, 2019 | Awareness, Education, Lebanon, Volunteer Blogs
by Alex Hart, Beirut volunteer The Bukra Ahla center where we live and work is situated in between the Shatila camp and the most intensive military checkpoint that I have seen in Lebanon. If you head into Shatila, you see an area that looks a lot like projects in the...
by HQ Team Communication officer | Jun 26, 2019 | Awareness, Belgium
Ana Londoño Botero, project development and communications officer for SB OverSeas, shares her experience at the European Development Days that took place last week. What happens when more than 8,000 minds from all over the world come together to think twice about EU...
by HQ Team Communication officer | Jun 25, 2019 | Awareness, Press Releases
Read our report on the youth living in the Beirut and Aarsal settlements, based on data collected through household surveys. The data was collected by SB OverSeas staff over the course of 2018. The total number of households surveyed was 548, representing 2,800 ...
by HQ Team Communication officer | Mar 28, 2019 | Advocacy, Awareness, Belgium, Empowerment, Featured for Homepage, Lebanon, Press Releases
Women are not victims, and when empowered and included in peacekeeping operations, solutions are much more tangible and sustainable. This was the central message that resonated from a discussion on International Women’s Day at the UN University, of what could happen...