door admin | mei 30, 2018 | belangenbehartiging, Child Marriage - Our Stories, eMPOWERMENT, Press Releases
Written by Jade-Leigh Tenwick, Communications and Development Officer at SB OverSeas This article tells the story of Ream, an eighteen year old who attends one of our SB OverSeas centre. SB OverSeas has three centres in Lebanon where we run education and empowerment...
door admin | mei 9, 2018 | belangenbehartiging, Child Marriage - Our Stories, eMPOWERMENT, Press Releases
No one escapes war unchanged. Who can lose the past and the future at once without bearing a scar? The young and old are marked, though for most, these marks take invisible forms. Nadine wishes hers were less apparent. The burns on her hands, neck, and face tell of...
door admin | apr 18, 2018 | belangenbehartiging, Awareness, Child Marriage - Our Stories, eMPOWERMENT, Press Releases
Written by Jade-Leigh Tenwick, Communications and Development Officer at SB OverSeas Lamis is a seventeen year old girl. A seventeen year old girl who is called ‘the divorced woman’. Yet she is barely a woman. Born a year post millennium, she enjoyed her childhood in...
door admin | mrt 28, 2018 | belangenbehartiging, Child Marriage - Our Stories, onderwijs, eMPOWERMENT, Press Releases
As written by Zuzana, a volunteer at SB OverSeas in Lebanon. SB OverSeas is currently working to provide education in Lebanon for 1,400 refugee children. This story shows how education and empowerment is an important tool in preventing child marriage from the...
door admin | jan 16, 2018 | belangenbehartiging, Child Marriage - Our Stories, eMPOWERMENT, Press Releases
It was the beginning of this past fall when Louma Albik went on her regular trip to Lebanon to visit SB OverSeas centres and assess the needs of the families, mostly Syrian, living in refugee camps. At SB OverSeas, the role of Chairwoman is not limited to managing the...
door admin | nov 17, 2017 | belangenbehartiging, Press Releases
Author: Veronica Lari Context According to UNHCR’s latest updates, more than 1 million Syrian refugees live in Lebanon[1], meaning that it now hosts the largest number of Syrian refugees per capita in the world. The government of Lebanon is consistently refusing to...