Alsama Project - About

Alsama began in January 2020 as a small girls’ empowerment centre, teaching awareness, cricket, and yoga to a few dozen teenage girls in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut.

Many of the girls could barely read and write. But it didn’t take long and they had caught the scent of education, wanting more. They asked us to teach them English, to help them to budget, to properly learn to read and write their mother tongue, Arabic. So we established an education institute and expanded our cricket hubs. We are now teaching and empowering ~500 students across 3 refugee camps – as well as sponsoring our most talented students at partner secondary schools towards university and providing employment to mothers through our social enterprise.