The Syrian Refugee Crisis
Support Training to Give Refugees a Chance to Heal and Stand Tall

Help a War Survivor Rebuild his/her Life

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Motivate

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​Bring hope to Syrian refugees living without hope for a better future. 

Make refugees aware of their potential as individuals and as groups within the camps.​

Develop small enterprises among refugees now existing on hand-outs.

Educate

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​Train refugees in practical skills and crafts such as sewing, carpentry, soap-making and needlework. ​

With new skills, help adults become responsible for themselves and their families, especially for the children who make up 50% of the total camp population.  

Elevate

Develop business enterprises within the camps to raise the standard of living for refugees today while preparing them to return to their former homes in Syria with new skills.
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Generate family income and improved confidence through small business activities in the camps. ​

Direct income to the care and education of the children.  

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Walid's Fund
Bringing Job Skills and Hope to Syrian Refugees

The current refugee crisis is the greatest humanitarian disaster since WWII.  Amid hope for reduced strife, dislocations from the civil war in Syria continues. Over 3 million Syrians have found temporary safe havens inside Lebanon. By recent count, 1.6 million refugees are captive in the camps set up by the UN refugee agency.

They cannot go home; they cannot leave Lebanon. Many are paralyzed by past trauma, poverty, illiteracy and lack of resources. A few international relief agencies, such as the UN refugee agency and UNICEF, provide basic survival kits. Refugees quickly become dependent on hand-outs as that is all they have as a means to survive.

Having spent 9 years in waiting, their hope for being treated like human beings is almost out. "Children here are asking questions like even animals have rights but we have none. Why so?"​ The personal trauma that these people have gone through is beyond comprehension.

Walid’s Fund, a registered 501 (c) (3) charitable organization, serves people, refugees living in crisis. We surveyed and identified seven camps in South Lebanon that are “aid deserts,” places by-passed by the major international relief agencies. We provide vocational training to the refugees to help them be self-reliant.

Our Story

Make a Difference.

Can You Think of a Better Cause
Than Helping The Largest Number of Civil War Survivors?
​Half of the Refugees are Children.
2 out of 3 Children have Suffered Personal Loss and are
Unable to Go to School
All they need is Transportation Fee of $20 per month.

You Can Save An Entire Generation From Being Lost in Child-Marriages and Child Labor.

Your Contribution helps
a Refugee Parent Stand Tall &
Nurture the Dreams and Future of Kids by
Sending them Back to School.

Help the Kids Grow with their Family in a Secure, Loving and Healthy Environment.  Your Decision  Today Makes Them Better Global Citizens of Our Future.​

Wait No More. Make a Difference Before The Time Runs Out!
Please Act Now​ To Be the Change. ​

Gift a Training to a Refugee

Our Mission: "Be the Change"
To See the Change, Be the Change

Our goal is to inspire hope by developing practical occupational skills among the adults. With skills, individuals and groups can help each other and begin to earn money by selling services and crafts. Occupational skills bring income and hope for a stable future. Skills bring new confidence in individuals and families. Our remedy is simple, original and is making a difference. Practical job skills across a range of occupations, each with the potential to improve circumstances for the families now prepare them for the hoped-for return to their homes in Syria. We tap innate talent and skills and promote self-reliance and new enterprises within the camps. We believe human spirit is resilient, powerful and positive even amid great suffering.

Know more about our journey

Latest Developments at The Job Skills Training Camps
Total Lives Touched: 154+ Families

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Syrian Refugees Becoming Self-Reliant

Be the Change, December 2018 Updates

• ​$25,000 contributed in December 2018.
  
• Employed 6 coaches and 11 Red Cross workers.
  

• Over three-week period, ran 6 life skills training programs in 7 refugee camps.
  

• Be the Change program reached 87 refugees in December.  Add this to the 57 participants from May training.  
  

• Based on our latest survey (December 2018) 154+ Syrian refugee families have become self-reliant.

Act Now - Support the Refugees

As of December 2018, Walid’s Fund has trained a total of 154+ Syrian refugees in new skills.   
Based on our latest survey (December 2018) 180 families have become self-reliant.
 
Walid’s Fund translated your donation into hope for a better future for more than 154 refugee families.   
Your donation is helping refugees believe they can live a life with dignity and worth. Dignity is priceless!
 
A Heartfelt Thank You to All Who
Supported Our Mission Through 2018
We look Forward To Your Continued Patronage in 2019 As Well.

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Be the Change, May 2019 Initiative
Accelerated Life Skills Training is Here

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Moving Ahead
The success of the past training camps led to pre-booking of training to be conducted in May 2019. For the past three training camps the Syrian refugees are being trained in

• Sewing/Dressmaking Skills
• Makeup and Hair Styling 
• Barbering

In 2019, we are introducing four new skills:

• Soap-making
• Carpentry  
• Needlecrafts
• Preserving vegetables and fruits – canning, pickling, and preserving.

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A Glimpse of Life In The Syrian Refugee Camps
These Conditions Moved Us to Take Action!​

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How Can You Help?

An estimated number of participants in May 2019 workshops: 120+ participants 

A gift now:
• Helps a refugee living in crisis learn practical job skills.
• Helps refugees to earn money within the camps and from outside buyers.
• Helps refugees become more self-reliant, able to support themselves and their families.
• Helps a refugee family live with pride.
• Helps refugees give their kids a better future.

How Your Donation Works?

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Help a War Survivor Rebuild his/her Life

Gift A Training To A Refugee

When You Gift A Training to A Refugee 
You help save an entire generation 
from being lost in the chaos of the refugee camps and from the trauma of being a refugee. ​
This is not about giving someone one-time aid, medicine, food or shelter.
This is about making someone living on hand-outs
be self-reliant and productive. 
Self-reliant individuals trained with your donation are an asset to society at large.
What is better than gifting someone an opportunity to live with dignity
when all he/she is has is nothing but trauma of being a war survivor? 
With as little as $100/- you can
Be the Driving Force
Give Right Direction to Someone's Life.
Gift a Family an Opportunity to Survive. Put Money To Its Finest Use.
Give Humanity a Chance.  Give Dignified Life a Chance.
Please Act Now. 

Gift Training to a Refugee