When I first met Abdul*, a 23 year-old Syrian man, in his tent during one of the outreaches, he was in the same condition for the past 4 months. Abdul was a nice, religious and outgoing man but after March 2018 his behavior changed without any apparent reason....
Houssam*, a 45-year-old Syrian refugee with a schizophrenia diagnosed in 2012, managed to receive psychiatric treatment at the Mental Health clinic of the Social Promotion Foundation in Zahle. Houssam suffered the rigors of war in his country, survived his entry into...
Fatima is a Social Promotion Foundation nurse at its Mental Health Clinic in Zahle. It is the only psychiatric clinic available in the entire Bekaa Valley, a territory bordering Syria, and the first clinic of this kind that follows the strategy of the Lebanese...
On December 4, 2000, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted resolution 55/76, in which it declared June 20, the World Refugee Day, thus making it coincide with the anniversary of the Convention on the Status of Refugees of 1951. Today, when it is 18 years...
On Wednesday June 13, 2018 a special launching event took place at the Howard Karagheusian Center of the programme that supports primary and secondary health care in Lebanon, funded by the European Union’s Regional Trust Fund ‘Madad’. They took part...
April 7 is World Health Day. Currently, Social Promotion has four projects directly related to this sector, two in Ethiopia, one in Lebanon and one in Jordan, which seeks to consolidate the objective pursued by WHO that health would be accessible and quality for all...
