by rchakaki | Dec 24, 2013 | #live2give, Ramblings
Maria’s smile was the best gift I received this Christmas. Maria is seven years young. She can’t wait to go the USA, so she can run and play with other kids like she used to. Five months ago she was walking with her mom in their neighborhood in a...
by rchakaki | Aug 25, 2013 | #live2give, Ramblings, Social Business
Thanks to Salma El-Yassir the director of Welfare Association Lebanon Branch (WA-LB), I visited Burj El Barajneh Refugee Camp in Beirut. I visited to support the launch of a Youth Employment Service (YES) Program. To promote the project among camp residences, WA-LB...
by rchakaki | Aug 25, 2013 | Ramblings, Social Business
Thanks to Salma El-Yassir the director of Welfare Association Lebanon Branch (WA-LB), I visited Burj El Barajneh Refugee Camp in Beirut. I visited to support the launch of a Youth Employment Service (YES) Program. To promote the project among camp residences, WA-LB...
by rchakaki | Aug 15, 2013 | #live2give, Ramblings
Today felt heavy. I woke up at dawn, and prayed for the life of Amir Bedier. A man I had only heard of yesterday, when his brother and my friend Ahmed sent out this message: “Urgent please make dua for my brother Amir, who was just shot in the chest inside the...
by rchakaki | Jul 6, 2013 | Ramblings, Social Business
Spending 4 hours on the King Hussein border can be beneficial after all! I met a Palestinian-American (Wissam) who was visiting Palestine to evaluate a unique social initiative a friend of his started. We talked briefly, and met later in Ramallah. Amal came with...
