Bareeq Development https://bareeqdevelopment.org Investing in the human being Mon, 02 Nov 2020 12:52:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://bareeqdevelopment.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-Bareeq-Logo-V2sss-32x32.jpg Bareeq Development https://bareeqdevelopment.org 32 32 Eyad & His Sister – a family united in education https://bareeqdevelopment.org/eyad/ Mon, 02 Nov 2020 12:46:17 +0000 https://bareeqdevelopment.org/?p=74 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.

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Mona — the inspiration to open the Bareeq Remedial Education center: https://bareeqdevelopment.org/mona-the-inspiration-to-open-the-bareeq-remedial-education-center/ Mon, 02 Nov 2020 12:30:26 +0000 https://bareeqdevelopment.org/?p=60 Mona is Syrian girl who is ambitious, loves life and works hard for her dreams. When we met almost six years ago in Amman she had a high school degree but wanted to be a pharmacist. 

We at Bareeq were very happy to be able to sponsor her with a Bareeq university scholarship. While she was studying, she came to me and said: I want to help others, like you helped me. 

She had come up with the idea of teaching small children remedial education and we did it together. 

We established and opened in Amman the Bareeq Remedial Education center with only 32 children initially, and now after 5 years we have more than 350 students of all ages. Not only did Mona work at the center, but she even brought like-minded college friends to also work at the center for a year. She graduated and is now doing her master’s degree.

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From Despair to BSc Honours, Pharmacology https://bareeqdevelopment.org/from-despair-to-bsc-honours-pharmacology/ Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:57:20 +0000 https://bareeqdevelopment.org/?p=54 Five years ago I met Rafah at Bareeq center, an 18 year old Syrian young woman from Homs.

Rafah was trying to find a way out of her despair and a hopeless future.

Even though she just finished high school with high marks, she wanted to go to college but her family had arranged for her to be engaged with someone she no longer likes and to get married.

She told me, “Not only my marks can get me into the college I want to follow my dream of pharmacology, my fiancé already said that he is not going to wait for me to finish my studies if I did, and would leave me – exactly what I want!”

We were very happy to enroll her into Bareeq’s university scholarship program and she recently completed her 5-year program and graduated with a pharmacology degree with honors.

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