#Refugee

Maryam’s story: Caring for a newborn without the support of my family in Syria

MAP’s team spoke to Maryam, a Palestinian refugee from Syria now living in Lebanon, about the care and support she received from midwife Rania.

Learning with lightbulbs: Adapting education for refugee children with autism

Wafa Dakwar, MAP’s Senior Programme Officer in Lebanon, discusses how the MAP-supported Ghassan Kanafani Cultural Foundation’s Habilitation preschool, in Mar Elias camp, Beirut, helped seven-year-old Hasan and his family.

Mohamad’s story: “They helped me become confident and dependable”

Wafa Dakwar, MAP’s Senior Programme Officer in Lebanon, met with 17-year-old Palestinian refugee Mohamad to discuss the impact our ‘Adolescents Health and Life Skills Education’ programme has had on his life.

Remembering the victims and survivors of the Sabra and Shatila massacre

On the 36th anniversary of the massacre in the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon, MAP remembers with deep sadness the victims and survivors.

Supporting young Palestinian refugees: “It helped me get through a dark period in my life”

Hana, a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, discussed the impact the ‘Adolescents Health and Life Skills Education’ programme had on her life.

Tackling taboos: MAP-supported reproductive health services for Palestinian refugee communities in Lebanon

Read how Arwa, a Palestinian refugee living in Ein el Helweh camp in south Lebanon, has benefitted from the reproductive health programme run by MAP’s partner organisation, Naba’a.

“It is not fair. Highly qualified Palestinian doctors are unable to work”

Imaan*, a gynaecologist, spoke to MAP about the barriers she has faced as a Palestinian refugee working in the Lebanese health sector.

“When they find out you’re Palestinian, they say no"

Mohammed, a Palestinian refugee nurse in a Palestinian Red Crescent Society hospital in Lebanon, spoke to MAP about the barriers he faces working in the health sector in Lebanon.

Seventy years of ongoing Nakba

Today on the 70th anniversary of the Nakba ('catastrophe') MAP CEO Aimee Shalan writes from Gaza:

Nakba 70: Amal Zaqout, MAP's Community Programme Officer in Gaza

Amal Zaqout, MAP’s Community Programme Officer, describes life as a Palestinian refugee in Gaza

Displaced and occupied: Bedouin refugees in the West Bank

For the Bedouin communities in the Jordan Valley, a region in Area C of the West Bank where Israel maintains full civil and military control, displacement and dispossession have been part of life for over 70 years.

Once-bustling Yarmouk now a ghost-town and its surviving hospital is no more

On 22 April the only remaining hospital in Yarmouk, south Damascus, was put out of service after being reportedly destroyed in an air raid.