News

24th June 2020 Common Future Invests in Alsama Studio Chinese NGO Common Future and Peaceland Foundation invest in Alsama Studio in order to develop hand-embroidered products for the Chinese market.

19th June 2020 Great! Incredible! Such a gift ! The girls are amazing! Six Alsama girls - Lujein, Aseel, Hadeel, Ghadir, Amina and Yasmin - performed Phenomenal Woman today live on zoom. 805 people watched in stunned amazement.

12th June 2020 Alsama and Peirene Press join forces for World Refugee Day Join us for a webinar where for the first time ever an international audience can hear the authors of ‘Shatila Stories’ speak about their experience living in Shatila and writing this extraordinary book.

8th June 2020 Alsama Girls Perform Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou 'Shatila's Phenomenal Women' - a short film made during the COVID-19 lockdown by 40 Syrian and Palestinian refugee girls and young women from the Alsama Centre in Shatila. Watched the poem performed as you've never seen it before.

28th April 2020 Cedar Cricket Club wins 1st international challenge Last week cricketers from Shatila, Bourj al Barajneh and Majdel al Anjaar camps took part in their first international sports challenge. And they have come out top, beating teams from UK and US. Huge congratulations!

28th April 2020 UK top TEFL school teaches Alsama children We are delighted to announce our collaboration with Discovery Summer, one of the top English language schools in the UK. All Alsama children are now receiving 3 hours per week of English classes.

20th April 2020 Alsama children online and receiving lessons via zoom All 210 Alsama children - in the Bekaa tents and Shatila and Bourj al-Barajneh camps - have now been connected to wifi, and are receiving cricket, yoga and creative writing lessons online.

20th April 2020 Thank you for your amazing support! You have helped us to raise more than £30,000 in support of our 133 Alsama Syrian refugee families during the COVID-19 lockdown.