Across Lebanon, young refugees and displaced youth are being left behind.
Almost 60% of Syrian refugees in Lebanon never attend school, and those that do rarely have access to consistent quality education.
Alsama means ‘the sky’ in Arabic. We provide free secondary education to teenagers who are otherwise likely to enter early marriage or child labour. Most students join us illiterate and innumerate but graduate ready to enter university or skilled employment after six years. Alsama education broadens the horizons of our students, their families, and generations to come!
Ramadan is a time in which generosity carries deeper meaning. This year, please consider supporting Alsama project through your zakat and sadaqah to give refugee youth the gift of education.
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More about Alsama:
Alsama Project is operates four education centres across the Shatila and Bourj El-Barajneh refugee camps of Beirut. Alsama currently serves ~1,000 students every year. 66% of Alsama students are girls and the vast majority are Syrian refugees.
Students typically join Alsama illiterate and innumerate. Through Alsama’s award-winning (Library of Congress Literacy prize, Ockenden prize) and WASC accredited curriculum, 95% achieve literacy and numeracy within six months and will go on to graduate university-ready in six years. To complement this, students are offered further extra-curricular opportunities, particularly cricket. This education has the potential to quadruple lifetime earnings while significantly reducing long-term aid dependency (McKinsey Alsama Value Add Exercise, 2025).
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