Parents in the Middle East and North Africa are carrying extra weight on their shoulders. They have dreams for giving their children better lives, but they also have fears. A father in Egypt tells us he worries, “What if my children are kidnapped on their way to school?” Syrian refugees in Lebanon are wondering, “Why
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Freedom, democracy, and the right to learn. As the SAT-7 ACADEMY channel launches, Martin Thomas, children’s author and SAT-7 UK Director for External Engagement, reflects on changing attitudes in global education. How many parents have heard the early morning cry, “I don’t want to go to school”? If we were to do a global survey
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Hunted down by militants in Syria, Yaldiz and her three children fled to Lebanon. The family’s lives changed forever when they were introduced to the SAT-7 KIDS program My School, which has helped them end a cycle of poor-quality education. Yaldiz, 35, and husband Adnan, 45, come from a humble Kurdish family in Aleppo with
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A JORDANIAN “CONVINCED BY THE PERSON OF JESUS” “It may seem strange, but this is what I totally believe in,” wrote Ramez*, a Jordanian living in Saudi Arabia, as he related the seven-year journey that had brought him, much to his amazement, to become a follower of Jesus. Ramez began writing to SAT-7’s audience relations
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Step inside the tents of Syrian refugee mothers in Lebanon and meet Reem and Maha, mothers of small children. A SAT-7 team recently visited Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, home to hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. Reem’s family received our staff members into their home, welcoming them warmly with coffee. Reem’s “home” is a plastic tent that
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SAT-7 is more than a family of television channels: we are encouragers. As we watch the atrocities of the Syrian Crisis unfold, millions feel helpless. Approximately 13.5 million people need humanitarian assistance inside Syria.1 Over 4.5 million Syrians are refugees living in overcrowded, underfunded camps across the Middle East and Europe.2 It’s a dismal picture. THERE
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