Syrian refugee pianist awarded Beethoven human rights prizeimage
21 Dec 2015

Syrian refugee pianist awarded Beethoven human rights prize

Syrian refugee Aeham Ahmad was granted the International Beethoven Prize for Human Rights, Peace, Inclusion and the Fight Against Poverty. […]

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Edward Norton Hopes to Help More Families After Starting Fundraising Campaign for Syrian Refugeeimage
21 Dec 2015

Edward Norton Hopes to Help More Families After Starting Fundraising Campaign for Syrian Refugee

You get what you give. Such is the case with Edward Norton and the amount of support and positive feedback […]

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Turkish businessman opens houses to Syrian refugeesimage
21 Dec 2015

Turkish businessman opens houses to Syrian refugees

Akfen Holding Chairman Hamdi Akın has opened some of his houses to Syrian refugees in Istanbul after he saw the […]

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Volunteers need help shipping food to Jordan refugee campimage
21 Dec 2015

Volunteers need help shipping food to Jordan refugee camp

Thanks to more than 1,500 volunteers who gave up their Saturday earlier this month, Syrian refugees in Jordan soon will […]

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‘Private sector must help Syrian children’: Renziimage
11 Dec 2015

‘Private sector must help Syrian children’: Renzi

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi urged companies on Thursday to do more to help children in war-torn Syria, saying improving […]

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Composer brings music to children 
in refugee campsimage
09 Dec 2015

Composer brings music to children 
in refugee camps

A composer and Edinburgh University music professor has travelled to Syria and Lebanon to hold arts workshops for refugee children […]

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UN: 12,000 Syrians stuck at Jordanian borderimage
09 Dec 2015

UN: 12,000 Syrians stuck at Jordanian border

Reuters reports that the UN requests Jordan to allow an addition 12,000 Syrian refugees into the country, as conditions along […]

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Burlington youngster’s fundraiser for Syrian refugee children a successimage
09 Dec 2015

Burlington youngster’s fundraiser for Syrian refugee children a success

The Beanie Boos for Syrian Children fundraiser, organized by 10-year-old Burlington resident Eleeza Rafiq, has collected 300 stuffed animals. Through […]

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Syria Film Festival addresses conflict through cinema and activist artimage
08 Dec 2015

Syria Film Festival addresses conflict through cinema and activist art

This November, Canada’s first Syria Film Festival (SYFF) took place in Toronto, and was a rousing success, selling out its […]

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Generation of Syrian children face ‘catastrophic’ psychological damageimage
08 Dec 2015

Generation of Syrian children face ‘catastrophic’ psychological damage

LONDON, Dec 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A generation of Syrian children are facing “catastrophic” psychological damage with one in […]

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