Sawa featured by Al Jazeera

A refugee camp in Beqaa

Rouba Mhaissen, Founder & Director at Sawa for Development and Aid and a member of the Protracted Displacement Economies (PDE) team, has been quoted in an Al Jazeera article about inadequate donor funding to support those affected by the Syrian conflict. The article, ‘Brussels conference: Donors pledge $6.7bn in aid for Syrians’ can be read here.

This follows Al Jazeera covering Sawa for Development and Aid’s work in an April 2022 article about the impact of Lebanon’s economic crisis on Syrian refugees. That article, ‘Ramadan 2022: Syrian refugees struggle in cash-strapped Lebanon’, can be read here.