Eyad is a very smart and hard-working young man who was completing his second year of Civil Engineering degree in Aleppo, Syria.
A devastating bomb went off in his college in 2017 which resulted in complete demolition and many of his colleagues and professors lost their lives. Out of desperation, he and his sister and mother fled to Jordan as refugees and there he became depressed and isolated. This is when I met him and his sister at the Bareeq center in Amman.
He came to push for his sister to be sponsored into a university degree – “My sister is more important than me” is what he told me then. “I want her to be an independent young woman – I on the other hand need to find work to support my family.”
As it turns out, we were able to sponsor both of them in the Bareeq university scholarship program, and he was able to complete his Civil Engineering degree and is now currently working as a site engineering in a construction company in Jordan. His sister has a couple more years to go and is doing very well.