-- Goodwill Caravan launched a student sponsorship project to help Palestinian students in Cairo to complete their studies, and fulfill their dreams of becoming doctors. This project aims to fund the students to complete their studies and graduate as doctors so they can go back to Gaza where they can serve their own community. A very different take on charity for Gaza and the Palestinians.
Hanan Asheg, Founder and Executive Director at Goodwill Caravan, says: "We wanted to try something new with this project to help Palestinian students in Cairo to complete their studies, and fulfill their dreams of becoming doctors. We and many other charities have been able to provide aid and emergency supplies to those in and escaping Gaza but after supporting refugees for 10 years I saw a unique opportunity to do more than feed them for a day. With our centre in Cairo helping thousands arriving from Gaza and Sudan we realised we could do more than help them survive, we could get their lives back on track and give them hope for the future. With a vocation and priceless skills for their own community, these students will be the doctors of tomorrow. We've also started providing mental health support at the centre to help the arriving refugees in settling into a new life after all their traumatic experiences. Most other charities have focused on the emergency aid. This is a problem because but this only helps them in a temporary way, they will need housing, future employment and the ability to live long after this conflict ends. We hope to be able to provide this hopeful future by funding hundreds of students to complete their degrees in Egypt"
Goodwill Caravan will continue to provide emergency aid, tents, food and housing but by taking this approach with both funding the completion of degrees and providing an array of mental health support they know these students and young refugees will be able to have a more settled future, gain employment and provide for their own families and community, breaking the need for dependency and reliance on charities and handouts in the future. Goodwill Caravan chose to take this approach after ten years of supporting refugees around the world and having kept in touch with so many of those displaced families the team understood the long-term difficulties of settling into a new life in a new place without the qualifications or transferable skills to become independent.
Hanan Asheg also said "We want to give our arrivals the opportunity for a brighter future not just survival. With our new Project to help Palestinian students in Cairo to complete their studies, and fulfill their dreams of becoming doctors, they have a fresh new possibility to fulfil their dreams. The students are always ecstatic to hear they would be able to complete their studies especially after the heartbreak of seeing the schools and Gazas university completely destroyed in the conflict."
Goodwill Caravan has been in support refugees for over 10 year, being established in 2015. They have always aimed to support refugees and vulnerable groups on the journey to a better life and have achieved this globally with centres in Greece and Libya as well as Egypt.
This isn't the first time Goodwill Caravan has defied convention either. In In Greece Goodwill Caravan was one of the only charities to focus on the reunification of children with their families and were able to reunite hundreds of children with relatives and avoid them being trafficked. This incredible team work in partnership with the communities they support to met their need effectively.
The new project to help Palestinian students in Cairo to complete their studies, and fulfill their dreams of becoming doctors service is growing; to find out more about the projects and service and from Goodwill Caravan visit https://goodwillcaravan.com/
Contact Info:
Name: Hanan Ashegh
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Organization: Goodwill Caravan
Address: Epworth House 25 City Rd, London, London EC1Y 1AA, United Kingdom
Phone: +44-7932-573108
Website: https://goodwillcaravan.com/
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