A Refuge for Refugees, Part Three: This is the Response

Sorta Awesome

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Education, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In September 2016, Megan traveled with World Vision USA to Lebanon to see the work being done to provide aid to Syrian refugees there. This is final episode in the three-part series telling the stories of what she learned there. CLICK HERE to give a one-time donation to World Vision's work in Syria CLICK HERE to give a one-time or monthly donation to World Vision's REFUGEE RESPONDER program WeWelcomeRefugees.com Project Hive You can find Megan on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram! Visit sortaawesomeshow.com for show notes on this and every episode. And don’t forget to find us in the Sorta Awesome Hangout on Facebook or @sortaawesomeshow on Instagram! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're happy to see.
0:04.0	You're going to be here.
0:05.0	I'm happy to you.
0:10.0	I'm happy to see you.
0:15.0	The morning to see you.
0:17.0	The morning, the morning,
0:21.0	the morning, I'm happy to you. I'm happy, I'm happy. I'm happy to see you.
0:31.0	Hooray!
0:32.0	Hooray! We're picking up where we left off last time in part two of this series. We're in Lebanon's Vakah Valley and today we're at one of a number of schools and child-friendly
0:46.4	spaces set up by world vision for the children of Syrian refugee families living here. These early childhood schools and
0:55.2	child-friendly spaces are part of World Vision's response to the Syrian crisis.
1:08.2	I'm Megan Teats and this episode is the third and final part of a special series on Sort of Awesome called a refuge for refugees. This is the response. So yes, we are in the Bekkath, near the town of Zala.
1:35.0	As we walk into a community center that houses this World Vision School,
1:39.0	we can't help but to notice posters and flyers with the phrase no lost generation written on them.
1:47.0	Jessica, the Lebanese woman who supervises the education programs for World Vision Lebanon,
1:52.3	tells us that the No Lost Generation Initiative
1:55.0	includes partners from across several groups, World Vision, but also the UN, UNICEF, and
2:01.1	more.
2:02.1	And it began once it became clear that the Syrian crisis was going to stretch beyond just a few years of fighting.
2:08.0	And that because half of all of the Syrian people who have been displaced from their homes in this
2:13.7	conflict, our children, a whole generation from this country is extremely
2:20.0	vulnerable to the lifelong effects of the lack of access to education.
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