What would your life look like without the building blocks of an elementary education? That’s a question one ministry has asked on behalf of Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Tom Atema with Heart for Lebanon says through educational programs hosted at two locations,

Fearing for their lives, Syrian men, women and children waded through a river to safety in Lebanon, among hundreds of people who have fled to the neighbouring country to escape sectarian killing targeting their Alawite community.

After violence broke out between the current and past regimes in Syria, fearful residents have waded across a river to take refuge in Lebanon.

Thousands of Syrians, mostly from Alawite-majority areas, have fled the violence in coastal Syria, seeking refuge in northern Lebanon.