In January 2020 my husband and I founded Alsama Project. Alsama means “sky” in Arabic. We offer new horizons to refugee children by setting up girls education centres and sports hubs in areas of the Middle East affected by conflict.

The Alsama Institute for Refugee Teenage Girls opened its doors in the Shatila camp in Beirut/Lebanon on 13th of January 2020. We’ve also been running successful cricket hubs for Syrian refugee girls and boys in various refugee camps in Lebanon since autumn 2018.

Alsama now educates 210 refugee children from 133 families.

All of these families live below the poverty line. But since the outbreak of the Covid -19 pandemic, their situation has become desperate. The price of food has doubled and the parents can’t work.

Kadria – the director of the Shatila Alsama Institute – told us: ‘Each day, mothers and fathers call me. They cry in desperation but also shame. Their children are going to bed hungry.’

So, we better do something. We have decided to provide all 133 families with food boxes. Each one will contain rice, lentils, pasta, oil, milk, sugar, tea, bread, and tins of tomatoes, tuna and apricot jam, as well as household sterilization products. Kadria and Mohammad (Thaer and Mazyad in Bekaa) will buy from traders in the camps. And they know where the families live.

Please support us to make this possible. Thank you. Shukran.

Meike, Richard, Kadria ( director of Alsama Insitute, Shatila), Mohammad ( head coach, Alsama’s Cedar Cricket Club, Lebanon) and all the Alsama girls & boys