Tag: Community Development
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Lebanon: The prolonged impacts of a war that still simmers
Read More: Lebanon: The prolonged impacts of a war that still simmersSeptember 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…
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Rebuilding lives with dignity – vocational training helping Sudanese refugees in Egypt
Read More: Rebuilding lives with dignity – vocational training helping Sudanese refugees in EgyptA brutal civil war has driven you from your home with little more than the clothes on your back. You’ve witnessed horrors that still play out again and again in…
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Cutting a new path: Barber training helps rebuild lives for ex-detainees in the West Bank
Read More: Cutting a new path: Barber training helps rebuild lives for ex-detainees in the West BankAli is smiling as he cuts another young man’s hair. He looks sharp in his streetwear as he confidently cuts and trims. Yet the journey Ali has been on to…
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Lebanon’s Displaced Families:Tarek’s Story
Read More: Lebanon’s Displaced Families:Tarek’s StoryWhen airstrikes began to hit Lebanon, young Tarek and his mum, who was just days from giving birth to her second son, had to escape quickly from their home.
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Iraq’s Young Climate Leaders Cultivating a Greener Future
Read More: Iraq’s Young Climate Leaders Cultivating a Greener FutureThe current global climate emergency means the term ‘Climate Change’ has become synonymous with negative environmental statistics. However, in places like the Ankawa region of Erbil, Iraq, ‘Climate Change’ means…
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Displaced for the fifth time: Amir’s Story
Read More: Displaced for the fifth time: Amir’s Story“When I left my house at 3am…I had to leave the most precious things I have, my livelihood and everything. In a moment I left everything I had and came…
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Warming homes & hearts with winter supplies in Lebanon
Read More: Warming homes & hearts with winter supplies in LebanonWinter in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon Each winter snow now covers the mountains surrounding Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley, where many Syrian refugees shelter. The season’s icy chill cuts through their tiny,…
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Emergency Employment Project in Bethlehem – Video update
Read More: Emergency Employment Project in Bethlehem – Video updateThe war in Gaza has caused unimaginable devastation in the Gaza strip, but has also had a huge impacts on the West Bank – including soaring unemployment. This year, we’ve…
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Overcoming isolation thanks to a community library in Lebanon
Read More: Overcoming isolation thanks to a community library in LebanonWhen Fatima moved in with her new husband at the Dbayeh Palestinian refugee camp, life was difficult. Poverty levels are high in the camp and making ends meet is a…
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Extraordinary Mothers: Building a business from scratch
Read More: Extraordinary Mothers: Building a business from scratchIn the weeks leading up to Mothering Sunday, we’ll be sharing stories of incredible mothers in difficult situations who have overcome the odds and built safer, better lives for themselves…
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Stories from the war in Lebanon: The tiny baby born into a warzone
Read More: Stories from the war in Lebanon: The tiny baby born into a warzoneBaby A was born in a marginalised neighbourhood in Beirut, in a warzone. Our partner, Tahaddi, are doing everything they can to support her and her family.
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Serving in the West Bank: “We want to be the hands of Jesus”
Read More: Serving in the West Bank: “We want to be the hands of Jesus”VIDEO – Elias Najjar of the Palestinian Bible Society tells Embrace staff how life in the West Bank has been affected by the war in Gaza, of the mounting challenges…
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Supporting young Christian entrepreneurs in northern Iraq
Read More: Supporting young Christian entrepreneurs in northern IraqIn northern Iraq the devastation and destruction caused by ISIS are still being felt in the region. Unemployment rates are high and livelihoods are precarious. For many families, it is…
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A year after the earthquake: ‘Afraid we might need assistance all our life’
Read More: A year after the earthquake: ‘Afraid we might need assistance all our life’Arwa and her husband have faced unimaginable hardships since the earthquake in February 2023 damaged their home in Aleppo. They describe how the church has supported them – and share…
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Caring for elderly earthquake survivors in Syria – no matter what
Read More: Caring for elderly earthquake survivors in Syria – no matter whatElderly people are deeply affected by the successive crises that have hit Syria in recent years. 74-year-old Virginia explains how the church has been a lifeline for her since the…
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Supporting earthquake survivors: ‘We were hungry, and they gave us food’
Read More: Supporting earthquake survivors: ‘We were hungry, and they gave us food’“During the earthquake, the walls of the home cracked, and all the glass was shattered. The refrigerator broke and most of our food provisions were spoiled. We escaped our house…
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Love in action, across divides
Read More: Love in action, across dividesIn the midst of the violence and polarising narratives that characterise the Israel/Hamas war, this hopeful story from a partner in Israel/Palestine is a beautiful picture of Christian love in…
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Promoting sustainable agriculture in Lebanon
Read More: Promoting sustainable agriculture in LebanonSince the economic crisis in Lebanon began in 2019, families face a daily struggle to get food on the table and are reduced to eating very limited, unhealthy diets. With the…
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Clean, running water for families in Egypt
Read More: Clean, running water for families in EgyptThe residents of El-Marg El-Sherkia, an informal community in Cairo, had to collect water in buckets everyday, until a project run by BLESS and supported by Embrace helped them get…
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Welcoming Sudan’s Refugees in Egypt
Read More: Welcoming Sudan’s Refugees in EgyptNadia and her young family recently crossed the border into Egypt, but like so many fleeing the violence in Sudan, they had had to leave everything behind and had nothing…