Located 55 kilometres east of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, is Bekka Valley, where most of the Syrian refugees take refuge. It is estimated that out of the 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, about one million reside here. To serve this deluge of displaced people, refugee centres sprang up all over the Bekka Valley, with this particular NGO being the first to arrive six years ago. This particular NGO currently serves about 300 families with over a thousand refugees. I w

The feeling of general malaise of our world, a foreboding like a dreary rain storm about to burst. The oppressiveness seeps into one’s bone. An unwanted emotion yet undischarged. Syria and her cities are bombed and blasted. On all sides from all sides! Innocents are trapped and lives are swat like flies. Nothing is sacred! The cities and hospitals, churches and mosques are all in ashes! Ancient monuments wrecked. Eqyptian coptic churches suffered suicide bombers. Pilgrims to