The Director of EJ-YMCA, Nader Abu Amsha, who has himself experienced much of what these children go through, tells us about the work of this programme, its vision, and the hope and healing it brings to children and young people across the West Bank.

Embrace works closely with a number of different organisations in Beirut and across Lebanon. Our dear friend and partner Sylvia Haddad, who works as the Director of the JCC, shared this touching update from the midst of a refugee camp during the Covid 19 outbreak.

With a population of over 19 million people, Cairo is a city that teams with life. Cars, trucks, minibuses and small motorbikes, often overloaded with passengers, compete with each for dominance on the congested highways that crisscross the city.

At the beginning of August this year, an explosion in the port of Beirut shook Lebanon, a country already on its knees. Here, Reem Haddad, daughter of our friend and partner Sylvia from the Joint Christian Committee (JCC), tells us how the youth of the camps have worked together in providing an extraordinary response to the disaster.

There will be countless lessons that we take away from this time of isolation brought about by Corona Virus – many positive, as well as some less so.