The number of orphans and children from single mother-headed households in the Arab world 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 are considered orphans. For the past decade, HCI has been addressing this problem by sponsoring orphans in the poorest communities in Palestine, Sudan, Lebanon and Egypt as part of HCI’s regional Child Sponsorship Program. There now are hundreds of orphans from Khartoum’s, Tripoli’s, Jerusalem’s, Cairo’s, Darfur’s and Gaza’s poorest communities having their basic needs met through HCI –health care, nutrition, education, guidance–getting a shot at a brighter future.
Child Sponsorship
Orphans from Egypt have been empowered to take the first steps towards protecting their natural environment as a result of HCI’s 2011 Earth Day activities. These children celebrated international Earth Day with HCI’s team and were treated to a fun-filled day of activities promoting environmental awareness. These children who are orphans from underprivileged backgrounds live [...]
HCI Celebrates Arab Orphan Day 2011!
Child Sponsorship, Children, Featured Stories from the Field
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Apr 012011
This year HCI celebrates Arab Orphan day in support of the tens of thousands of Arab orphans many of whom are sponsored by HCI’s regional Child Sponsorship Program, which is active in the poorest communities of Khartoum, Tripoli, Jerusalem, Cairo, Darfur and Gaza. HCI’s Child Sponsorship Program is designed to assist orphans and their families [...]
Child Sponsorship Program
Child Sponsorship, Children, Current Emergency Appeals, Orphans
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Feb 022011
From Survival to Long Term Sustainability The number of orphans and children from single mother-headed households in the Arab world 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 are considered orphans. For the [...]
HCI Celebrates Arab Orphan Day with Sponsored Children
Child Sponsorship, Children, Egypt, Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Palestine, Sudan
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May 042010
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 [...]
Video: HCI presents the Child Sponsorship Program
Child Sponsorship, Children, Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Orphans, Palestine
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Mar 152010
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 Related Posts:Health and Sanitation in 2010, the HCI WayGaza Emergency AppealSowing Hope, Harvesting Opportunity: Gaza in the Holy Month of RamadanFrom Gaza City Comes the Story of [...]
Two jobs were created at the Al Mona center for hearing imparities & mental development in Tripoli the week that Yazan, a member of the fundraising team in Canada visited the HCI team in Lebanon. The center, a subsidiary of the Charity of the Islamic Women Society was where the first meal of HCI’s Farm [...]
Celebrating the Arab Orphan Day
Child Sponsorship, Children, Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Orphans, Palestine, Sudan, West Bank
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Apr 012009
“My name is Abeer. I snuck into the pocket space under the stairs and settled on a worn rubber tire. I took into myself a rusty-bladed knife in a box of wood shavings, and watched the crystal bubbles in clear olive-oil jugs, and mourned. My fuzz-head torn-shorts brother sat cross-legged on the ground beside me, [...]
Oct 082008
“I’m already feeling nervous and it has only been few hours since I arrived. How do those permanently living here feel? How do they manage?” wondered Aminah Kandar, a visiting Board Member from HCI-Canada, during a field visit to Tripoli. Aminah was accompanied by HCI’s local partner CIWS, specifically to the troubled area of Bab [...]
