Alsama students’ education is once again threatened by war.

For six years, Alsama Project has provided a world-class education to refugee and displaced youth in Lebanon. More than 90% of our students join us illiterate and innumerate. Within six months, they are literate and numerate. Within six years, they are university-ready. Our year 6 students have just taken the G12++ and are currently interviewing for competitive international universities. But once again, war threatens everything they have worked for.

Bombing has disrupted our camp-based centres.

Bombs are falling in and around Shatila and Bourj al-Barajneh camps, forcing our education centres to close. Staff and students have been displaced. All students from our Bourj centre have evacuated their homes. Many of our Shatila students are sleeping outside at night, returning briefly during the day. Mass displacement from Southern Lebanon is flooding the streets of Beirut.

We will not stop.

We refuse to abandon our students when they need us most. We have adapted during war before, and we will do so again. Already, we have transitioned to a hybrid model. Some students are continuing lessons online via Zoom and WhatsApp. But our top year students are all receiving in-person teaching in a safe location as shown in the picture above. We will not miss a single day of teaching for any student.

But we need your help.

We have set up an emergency fundraiser to support our students. The situation remains highly volatile and uncertain, but it is already clear that we need to provide our staff with mobile data to deliver lessons to students. Our students need SIMs and data to access online lessons, safe shelters to maintain some in-person lessons, and any living costs for our top year students who choose to stay in Lebanon without their families, particularly since they need extra support with their upcoming university interviews.

When stability returns, any remaining funds will go directly toward our students’ continued education. But right now, they need immediate support.

Our top year student Wissal speaks about experiencing war for a third time, saying “War may threaten my present, but I am completely sure that education will protect my future”. It is for her education and future, along with those of our 950 students, that we are committed to continuing operations through this highly challenging time.

Please help us do it.