EDUCATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST
We believe education is the key to tackling poverty and creating hope for the future. Investing in education is one of the most powerful and effective ways to lift people out of poverty. We help to support education projects run by Christians in the Middle East so the children and adults can gain the skills to create their own, independent future.
LATEST UPDATES FROM OUR EDUCATION PROJECTS
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Lebanon: The prolonged impacts of a war that still simmers
September 2026 Six months ago, the informal settlement of Hay el Gharbeh, on the edge of Beirut, was in the middle of an evacuation zone. IDF airstrikes were hitting across Beirut’s suburbs as the latest conflict between Israel and Hezbollah…
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Seeds of reconciliation planted by Israel’s Teachers
‘Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness’ – James 3:18 Two teachers sit across the room from one another. Before today they have never spoken. Despite living only miles apart, their experiences of conflict, identity, and belonging…
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Lebanon: The prolonged impacts of a war that still simmers
September 2026 Six months ago, the informal settlement of Hay el Gharbeh, on the edge of Beirut, was in the middle of an evacuation zone. IDF airstrikes were hitting across Beirut’s suburbs as the latest conflict between Israel and Hezbollah…
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Seeds of reconciliation planted by Israel’s Teachers
‘Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness’ – James 3:18 Two teachers sit across the room from one another. Before today they have never spoken. Despite living only miles apart, their experiences of conflict, identity, and belonging…
PERSONAL STORIES FROM OUR EDUCATION PROJECTS
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“My greatest desire was simply to learn how to read”
Read More: “My greatest desire was simply to learn how to read”FUKAYNA’S STORY “My greatest desire was simply to learn how to read, so I’d be able to find my way if I went somewhere unfamiliar, read my own name at the hospital, and not remain illiterate.” Like many women in…
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Extraordinary Mothers: Refusing to give up on education
Read More: Extraordinary Mothers: Refusing to give up on educationIn the second in our series of stories featuring extraordinary mothers we meet Auset. Like many women in rural Egypt, gender discrimination meant Auset was not able to access adequate education as a child. This left her isolated, limited in…
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Giving deaf children in Lebanon the best start in life
Read More: Giving deaf children in Lebanon the best start in life10-month-old Layla is the youngest child enrolled at the Learning Centre for the Deaf’s Early Intervention Programme…
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Helping to rewrite futures in Egypt
Read More: Helping to rewrite futures in Egypt“Every time I see a child or a woman whom I’ve helped, it encourages me to continue.” Magy, a young Egyptian Christian, tells us about her work as the educational programme coordinator at the Episcocare’s community centre in Alexandria.
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Specialist disability care for Syria’s Children
Read More: Specialist disability care for Syria’s Children“I am now receiving the emotional support I was greatly lacking”. Find out how the Embrace-supported Child Friendly Space in Syria helped not only Rania’s three children, but Rania herself.
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Refugee week: Thriving against the odds in Lebanon’s education emergency
Read More: Refugee week: Thriving against the odds in Lebanon’s education emergencyMeet 13-year-old Noura, a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon. She was unable to attend school because she didn’t have official registration papers – until our partner, the Joint Christian Committee, stepped in.