It is at the Piccoli Sogni center in Baniyas – supported by the project Semi di Speranza – that the very young Syrian boys encounter opportunities that they would not otherwise have. This is the story of one of them: Yazan Al-Helou
Guillain-Barré Syndrome, this was the diagnosis for the little Syrian girl who could no longer stand. A course of targeted physiotherapy was therefore necessary, which in Syria, however, is very difficult to do. Yet thanks to the support of Semi di Speranza, Hanin has started walking again
It is not only the lack of means to satisfy physiological and primary needs that kills in Syria. Because of poverty, many people are forced to abandon therapies and not seek treatment, inevitably compromising their health and quality of life.
Educating the most vulnerable communities and those who need more attention is a challenge. But it is a path that is also good for the operators.
In Syria there is war, economic crisis, health emergency. But there are also the rights of young Syrians who dream of studying to improve their future. AMU supports them with the project Seeds of Hope.
September brings with it the beginning of school and for us it becomes an opportunity to focus on training and education. Fundamental elements for the development of communities in Italy and elsewhere.
There is something that goes beyond the physiotherapy and the treatments, even if essential, that the protagonists of the AMU projects receive: it is the possibility to look to the future with optimism. This was the case for Elias thanks to the project Seeds of Hope in Syria.
Amhed, in Syria, holds his thirteen-year-old boy’s last report card in his hands. This year, at school, he was the best in his class and it is a great satisfaction for him because he achieved this goal after a long educational journey at the after-school program supported by AMU in Homs with the program Seeds of Hope.
The children of the Seeds of Hope Project after-school programs in Syria have achieved excellent academic results despite the difficulties around them.
Farah’s mother talks about the little girl’s newfound serenity in Syria, after starting a language rehabilitation program, thanks to the Seeds of Hope program.
Daad lives in Syria, she suffers from cancer and because of the war she had to change accommodation several times, until she settled in Homs where she now fights against the disease accompanied by the Seeds of Hope programme.
The volunteers of the Seeds of Hope project in Syria, with their support, are constantly at the side of a family that has lived and lives in great economic difficulty, and has had to face health problems and serious bereavements: “We could not stand by and do nothing in the face of the pain of these people”.