Ten years of war, the limitations due to the embargo and the Coronavirus pandemic have imposed on the Syrian population living conditions bordering on poverty, favoring the re-emergence of the phenomenon of child labor exploitation. “After almost a week of quarantine,...
Seeds of Hope
Syria – Banyas After-School Program Continues Despite Covid19
The after-school project is aimed at 120 children aged 6 to 12, is part of the Syria Emergency Programme and is fully funded by “Kindermissionswerk, Die Sternsinger”: the child welfare organisation of the German Catholic Church. Banyas is a city on the coast of...
Stop the embargo on Syria!
AMU promotes and supports the appeal for the lifting of the economic embargo against Syria.
Covid19 – In Syria we can’t afford it
The operators of the health care project in Homs, also funded thanks to UBI - Unione Buddhista Italiana - within the "Emergenza Siria" program , continue to support chronic cancer patients even in this period, providing them with therapies and food aid in the most...
In Damascus an unexpected gift ignites reciprocity
The after-school program “ BEIT EL ATFAL” (HOUSE OF CHILDREN) in Damascus is an experience that continues to grow. A great understanding has been created between the teachers, the operators and the kids who attend it. The former have understood that caring for each...
Questions about Syria today, for those interested in understanding something.
[di Francesco Tortorella] “When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks much”[Walter Lippmann] What I expect from journalism is that it helps us think, understand. I don't expect answers from journalism. We are all intelligent enough to find the answers ourselves, when...
Syrian women for the reconstruction of the country
With the Center for the Support and Empowerment of Women in Homs, Syria, Amu wants to support women who are challenging everything: their age, sometimes their family and above all a society that would discourage them from undertaking training courses or starting a...
The Festival of Hypocrisies – Syria
Surely many of you will have had the opportunity to follow the updates that Tamara and Francesco of the AMU Projects Sector are sending daily from their mission in Syria. They are stories and testimonies of simple people who after years of war still have the strength...
Syria – Recognizing the Other is the First Step to Rebirth
The stories that come from Syria tell us about the difficulties that we try to overcome starting from human relationships. The aid projects for the sick in Homs and Kafarbo, also supported by UBI – Unione Buddhisti italiani, tell us about the suffering of the sick,...
Syria – Another Year of Hope in Homs
From the beginning of the school year, in September, we understood that the after-school center “Generation of Hope” in Homs, Syria, would have an intense year full of activities with the 90 children of all ages who signed up! And the first 3 months did not disappoint...