By reading these stories, you will meet the beneficiaries of HCI programs and you will learn about the power ordinary people have to change their own lives. You will also learn about the power caring people have to help them to do so.
 |
|
|
Ending the Indifference: HCI Joins in Raising Awareness of the Plight of Migrant Women Workers in Lebanon
|
| |
According to recent statistics around 200,000 women migrant domestic workers live in Lebanon working as housemaids, and nannies. The domestic nature of their work creates special relationships with their employers. Most migrant workers reside with a family, as the contract they sign requires that their employers to offer a shelter.
The Lebanese government recently [...] [more] |
|
HCI examines and discusses the challenges facing humanitarian assistance with leading aid agencies at the DIHAD Conference & Exhibition
|
| |
In April, HCI team members headed to Dubai to participate in the largest humanitarian event in the Middle East; the Dubai International Humanitarian Aid and Development Conference (DIHAD). The conference brings together all of the key actors working in international development and humanitarian assistance with the goals of sharing knowledge, increasing cooperation, and enhancing effectiveness. [...] [more] |
|
HCI Celebrates Arab Orphan Day with Sponsored Children
|
| |
Though Human Concern International works every day to improve the lives of orphans, one day is particularly crucial: Arab Orphan Day. Declared by the Arab league as a response to the many challenges faced by orphans, it falls on the first Friday of every April. It is designed to build awareness of the plight many [...] [more] |
|
Youth led local participation as a means of community development in Lebanon
|
| |
This year, Human Concern International embarked upon an ambitious project to asses the needs of a particularly disadvantaged Beirut neighborhood, Nabaa. Working alongside our local partner, Dar al-Amal, and twenty local youths, we have conducted a Participatory Rapid Appraisal (PRA) research which maps out the challenges faced by Nabaa residents. It is the first phase [...] [more] |
|
Video: HCI presents the Child Sponsorship Program
|
| |
HCI presents the Child Sponsorship Program; the case of Majd from Gaza
HCI presents the Child Sponsorship Program; the case of Abdel Rahman and Bara’ Hashem from Lebanon
[more] |
|
Building Opportunities for Sudanese Disabled
|
| |
The Sudanese Association for Disability and Rehabilitation in Fasher area, north of Darfur region in Sudan was established in 1987. HCI relationship with SADR started in 2003 when HCI supported the development of the SADR’s library with books and training materials about small income generation activities.
With the help of HCI, SADR has now 2865 members. [...] [more] |
|
Video: HCI presents The Happiness Forest: Bringing Together and Empowering Iraqi Refugees and Their Hosts
|
| |
A group of underprivileged Iraqi and Jordanian children volunteers met after school over couple of months to rehearse for a play called The Happiness Forest.
The play served as a safe and effective space for the children to learn lessons on peaceful coexistence, pluralism, gender equality, tolerance and non-violence.
The play was debut on the prestigious Royal [...] [more] |
|
Equal Treatment for All: Helping Disadvantaged Child Cancer Patients in Egypt
|
| |
Today, February 4th, is World Cancer Day. All around the world people and organizations are marking the occasion by raising awareness and funds to combat what remains one of the leading causes of death. Human Concern International has been active in this universal cause. Recently, we encouraged breast cancer screening for women in Gaza in [...] [more] |
|
Empowering and Encouraging Landmine victims in the South of Lebanon: The Backyard Production Support Project
|
| |
Life in the south of Lebanon is not easy. In a country all too often ravaged by war it has suffered the most. Located along the Lebanese-Israeli border, one of the most volatile on earth, its residents live a life of uncertainty. In 2006 the simmering tension once again became full scale war almost without [...] [more] |
|
HCI Helps Provide a Proper Eid Feast
|
| |
Understanding the culture and living conditions of the local communities we work with is part of HCI’s philosophy while serving these communities, especially at times such as Eid when great importance is placed on reviving and enjoying the traditional aspects of local culture. In addition, these traditions serve to strengthen community ties and embody [...] [more] |
|
Providing a Better Future for Mentally and Physically Challenged West Bank Children through Education
|
| |
Frequent arrests, military raids, over 600 Israeli military checkpoints, severely restricted freedom of movement, and ever-expanding settlements occupying more and more land are all a part of life in the West Bank. Conflict, poverty, unemployment, and isolation have left its residents with an uncertain future. The physically and mentally challenged, who according to WHO estimates [...] [more] |
|
Active People for Active Change: HCI?s Healthy Living Campaign and the Beirut International Marathon
|
| |
Last Sunday the streets of central Beirut were transformed by the Beirut International Marathon. For one day they were devoid of traffic, as people of all ages, religions, ethnicities, and nationalities walked and ran side by side. They turned the streets into a sea of people, all of them willing to sacrifice their time and [...] [more] |
|
Today?s Orphans, Tomorrow?s Entrepreneurs: Unleashing the Economic Potential of Sudan?s Orphans
|
| |
The number of orphans and children from single mother-headed households in Sudan has risen dramatically over the past few years due to war, natural disasters, and other crises. Poverty and economic hardship also have added to children born out of wedlock who, according to Sudanese law, are considered orphans. Since 2003, HCI has been addressing [...] [more] |
|
A Day in the City: Touching Lives and Engaging Minds
|
| |
Jabal Akroum is one of the poorest and most marginalized areas of Lebanon; it is remote, difficult to reach and underdeveloped. It is located high up in the mountains of the Akkar district which has seen several conflicts back-to-back; in 2006 there was the July War in which all of Lebanon was affected and in [...] [more] |
|
Sohatak Bel Deni: the launching of HCI?s specially tailored healthy eating habits manual in Lebanon
|
| |
Every child deserves to be healthy; the proverb “healthy body, healthy mind” says it all; access to a good nutritious meal and developing healthy eating habits are vital for every child’s well being. In 2009, HCI introduced the “Farm to School Program” in Lebanon, where small scale farmers, low income students, and unemployed women living [...] [more] |
|
Sowing Hope, Harvesting Opportunity: Gaza in the Holy Month of Ramadan
|
| |
Every Palestinian woman and family have a story to tell, many of these stories reflect the profound sadness of Gaza’s own story; stories about the healing of wounds, about deprivation, about women struggling to support families and most of all about keeping hope alive. HCI is acutely aware of this nations suffering and follows [...] [more] |
|
Ramadan 2009: HCI?s Experiences around the Arab World
|
| |
For the Muslim world, the month of Ramadan is traditionally a time for inner reflection, devotion to God, self control, and fasting from sunrise to sunset. It is also a particularly joyous time when relatives and friends invite each other over to gather around a table and break the fast together-Iftar-and above all a time [...] [more] |
|
Farm to School Project: Expanding Regionally
|
| |
The “Farm to School program brings healthy food from local farms to thousands of poor school-aged children in low-income remote villages. Moreover, the program teaches students about healthy eating habits that can last a lifetime. In addition, the use of local products in school meals and educational activities provides a new direct market for local [...] [more] |
|
Sustainable Development in Gaza: One Step at a Time
|
| |
At a time when Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead Maguire, and former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney are detained for attempting to provide humanitarian assistance to Gaza, at a time when toys, food and medical supplies are lingering elusively at the gates of the city, and the imposed blockade continues to exacerbate millions of lives, the residents of [...] [more] |
|
Sudan Dairy; Building Capacities and Unlocking the Potential of Widows and Orphans
|
| |
In May 2009, the HCI team launched two projects in Sudan that will provide credit capital and the necessary training and coaching to two new communities in two settlements in the south and the north of the capital Khartoum as well as a project which will promote entrepreneurial spirit among impoverished Sudanese orphans, and giving [...] [more] |
| |
|
|
