Repaired Benghazi home brings comfort after loss and displacement
By Farah Harwida and Mohamed Alalem in Benghazi, Libya Rehabilitation scheme helps people return home and rebuild their lives in Benghazi, which hosts the largest number of returnees and families displaced by conflict in eastern Libya. When Jalila* first returned to...
UNHCR helps Syrian student on his journey to higher learning
The UNHCR refugee scholarship program (DAFI) has sponsored more than 18,500 refugee students in over 50 countries since it began in 1992. Shadi Al Mesitef was a DAFI scholar at Zarqa University in Jordan where he studied medical laboratory. He graduated in June of...
Welcome warmth: How cash assistance offers a lifeline for Syrian families.
The COVID-19 pandemic that has had the world in its grip for the past two years has made life very difficult for Abu Ahmad (pictured above) and his family. As a construction worker in Aleppo, Syria, Abu was able to support his family for years; but a number of health...
