by admin | Jun 1, 2023 | Blog
On February 6, an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale shook Turkey and Syria. This tragic event took a particularly heavy toll, with 50,000 dead, a hundred thousand injured and almost a million displaced. Moreover, in February, the region of southern Turkey...
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 admin | Mar 26, 2018 | Child Marriage - Our Stories, Empowerment, Press Releases
As written by Raisa Elhadi, who is currently volunteering with SB Overseas in Lebanon This is a story of a girl named Sherine, but her name could be Amina, or Amal, or Sara, or any one of hundreds, even thousands of names of girls with almost the same story. Girls...
by admin | Apr 11, 2017 | Advocacy, Give Hope, Our campaigns, Press Releases
The “Brussels Conference on Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region” took place last week on the 4th and 5th of April 2017. The European Union, the United Nations, as well as the governments of Germany, Kuwait, Norway, Qatar and the UK took part in the...
by admin | Apr 5, 2017 | Give Hope, Our campaigns, Press Releases
On the International Day of Hope, Soutien Belge Overseas has launched an awareness campaign called #GiveHope to promote the importance of education for refugee children. Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis in 2011, nearly 5 million refugees have fled to...