As a parent, you want to raise your children to become caring, kind, empathetic people who make a positive impact on the world and the people around them. You also want to protect your childhood from the ugliness of the world for as long as possible. How do you do both? How do you discuss the hard truths, tragedies, and crimes against humanity?

We say we care about overhead, but what we really care about is impact, or status, or momentum. What we measure isn’t a simple percentage, it’s a lot deeper than that.

The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen is a collection of short stories on the refugee experience. Though not specially about the Syrian diaspora, its eloquence and exquisite storytelling is relevant to anyone who wants to get deeper into the greatest humanitarian crisis of our generation. Irrespective if your focus is on Syria, Myanmar, US, Sub-Sahara Africa.

3RP Partners are implementing the joint initiative “Support of Technical and Vocational Education (TVET) in Lebanon and enhancing enrollment in it”. This initiative aims to develop a TVET Strategic Paper and Roadmap leading to better linkages with the labour demand market requirements and the aspirations of UNICEF/Lebanon/ Sebastian Rich 18 youth aged 12 - 21 years. It builds on and complements other parallel interventions in place to improve the TVET system in Lebanon as well as mitigate the negative impact of the Syria crisis.

The digital revolution is transforming the world but refugees are being left behind. Today, almost 65 million forcibly displaced refugees and internally displaced persons are living without reliable internet and mobile connectivity.