door admin | jan 30, 2019 | België, Press Releases, Projects, SB Espoir
How do you learn about someone when you don’t speak the same language? Or come from the same culture? Many people would find this to be a demanding task. How do you overcome it? In the case of young refugees that arrive to Belgium, this is a task encountered on a...
door admin | jan 30, 2019 | belangenbehartiging, Child Marriage Comics, Child Marriage Comics, Libanon, Press Releases
Amara lives in the Saida shelter in Lebanon and she was a star student in SB OverSeas’ classes, until she no longer could come to school. She got married, pregnant, had a miscarriage and got pregnant again and had baby Amina. But she was just 13 years old. Read...
door admin | jan 28, 2019 | Libanon, Press Releases, vrijwilligers blog
By Rosa Heinen Any person who were to visit the center here in Saida would most likely think that it looks like a regular school, with regular children. With classes going on as usual and the children participating with enthusiasm, it doesn’t seem like much out of the...
door admin | jan 28, 2019 | Emergency Aid, eMPOWERMENT, Libanon, Our campaigns, Press Releases
In August, we started a fundraising campaign called ‘Thread of Hope’, placing focus on our Women Empowerment Programme, a significant component of which are the sewing classes. During one of the regular field visits, SB Overseas’ chairwoman noticed some of the sewing...
door admin | jan 28, 2019 | belangenbehartiging, Emergency Aid, Emergency Aid, Libanon, Our campaigns, Press Releases
BEIRUT, Lebanon– Since our campaign started at the beginning of January, your support has helped families survive the freezing temperatures and snowfall: Against the backdrop of the snowcapped Anti-Lebanon mountains and pillowy white storm clouds in the sky, UNHCR...
door admin | jan 24, 2019 | Press Releases, vrijwilligers blog
Hello everyone, My name is Francesca and I am a bubbly Italian, landed in Brussels in September 2018. I moved here after completing a dreadful – but extremely constructive – master’s degree at the University of Portsmouth, UK. I carried with me two big suitcases of...