by admin | Sep 28, 2018 | Advocacy, Child Marriage Comics, Child Marriage Comics, Lebanon, Press Releases
Since the beginning of this year, we have been bringing you our stories we hear from the ground about the practice of child marriage. This started when our chairperson visited Lebanon last September and was served a cup of tea by a child bride. Since then, SB OverSeas...
by admin | Apr 18, 2018 | Advocacy, 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...
by admin | Mar 28, 2018 | Advocacy, Child Marriage - Our Stories, Education, 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...
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 | Mar 16, 2018 | Belgium, Give Hope, Our campaigns, Press Releases
SB Overseas is launching its second annual #GiveHope campaign. Last year, thanks to your support, we managed to enable 1180 children to attend school in Lebanon. This year, our aim is to surpass that achievement with our new goal of placing 1400 children in schools....