Send a Child in Aleppo to School for a Year
This project focuses on providing literacy and quality education for 100 disadvantaged girls and boys affected by war and ever-growing poverty in Aleppo, Syria. At-risk young people attending public schools, and vocational or university courses, are funded and mentored to ensure school retention, literacy and future livelihood. Today, 86% of Syrian live below the poverty line. Even if public education is free, it is out of reach for many. Through your support, we can give Aleppo children hope.
Action Short Description
Crete For Life and the Blue Marists, active in Aleppo for decades, focus on supporting disadvantaged children of any religion. This project provides individual scholarships to students aged 6 to 15 by covering transportation, extra tuition, and other expenses to ensure they reach the necessary level of education. Moreover, boys and girls aged 15 to 18 are supported to achieve the required marks to apply to university. This project also helps university students in completing their courses. Education is the key to the future for those affected by years of hardship and trauma. Schools are safe places for reopening the dialogue interrupted by war. The opportunity to study can be a motivation not to emigrate abroad. The danger of indoctrination to the less educated is still very real in society. Young girls and boys can equally hope for a better future that includes digital literacy and foreign languages. Only the opportunity to study can bring peace and a brighter future.
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Short Description of Institute
Committed to children in need, working from Crete. Crete for Life is a child-focused charity that works on practical projects to make an immediate and lasting impact on children’s lives.”
Since 2005, our main project has been an annual restorative, fun-filled holiday on Crete for disadvantaged children. We have welcomed children coping with poverty, war, violence and life-threatening diseases from Greece, Belarus (those affected by the consequences of the Chernobyl’s catastrophe), Syria, Iraq and other parts of the world.
Over recent years, in response to the Greek economic crisis and the unprecedented mass migration and refugee crisis, we have also moved into other areas of support:
Helping refugees and migrants on the island of Crete and elsewhere in Greece, giving priority to unaccompanied minors and those most at risk.
Supporting Crete’s University Hospital in Heraklion and other local hospitals that care for thousands of local and migrant children every year.
Providing local children whose families & communities have suffered greatly from the economic downturn with practical help, medical assistance and emotional support.