by HQ Team Communication officer | Mar 28, 2019 | Featured for Homepage, Lebanon, Volunteer Blogs
When I first arrived at SB Overseas centre in Saida I remember feeling incredibly nervous. I had never really taught before and had no idea what to do with a room of twenty kids, let alone twenty kids who didn’t speak the same language as me. However, one of the...
by HQ Team Communication officer | Feb 27, 2019 | Belgium, Education, Press Releases, SB Espoir, Volunteer Blogs, Volunteers - SB Espoir
If you think my following words will describe to you what refugee children and youth currently living in Brussels witnessed during the war, their dangerous journey to Europe and their everyday life, I am sorry to disappoint you. I will guide you through another...
by HQ Team Communication officer | Feb 27, 2019 | Education, Empowerment, Lebanon, Press Releases, Volunteer Blogs
Class starts at 1:30pm with Arabic, but it is not until 2:30 when we, the volunteers, enter. First for mathematics, then for English starting at 3:10. The class is called “Basic Literacy and Numeracy,” or BLN for short. It is...
by HQ Team Communication officer | Feb 27, 2019 | Emergency Aid, Lebanon, Press Releases, Volunteer Blogs
BEIRUT, Lebanon – The children of SB Overseas are among the most vulnerable in the world. Consider Youssef, a 9-year-old boy in grade 0 at SB OverSeas’ Bukra Ahla center in Beirut. He was born in Manbij, Syria – a city well-known before the war for its educational...
by HQ Team Communication officer | Feb 20, 2019 | SB Espoir, Volunteer Blogs
Long-time SB Espoir volunteer Zoheb Mashiur shares with us his experience building relationships in Brussels through the volunteer programme: Brussels is an odd sort of town where everyone shuffles in and out. You should get used to saying goodbye – but you...
by HQ Team Communication officer | Feb 13, 2019 | Education, Lebanon, Press Releases, Volunteer Blogs
Every two months international volunteers come from all over the world to teach at SB’s non-formal education centres in Beirut or Saida, as they join our Lebanon Volunteering Programme. Recently, some of our wonderful volunteers told us what they have enjoyed the...
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