Having witnessed the horrors of civil war in Syria, and now relocated to Turkiye, young Najwa often remembers her mother. “I want to tell her that I love and miss her,” she says.
Now, at El Menahil International School, which boasts a uniquely exclusive body of students relocated from Syria to Istanbul, Najwa has a safe place to express her grief among others with similar stories.
Tzu Chi Turkey’s Nadya Chou explains that, with its sensitive programming for students, “El Menahil is a relay station for good, a relay station for life, which gets them out of suffering and brings them to the other side of joy.”
Nadya’s husband and fellow volunteer Faisal Hu underscores that the school is meant to provide not just a formal education, but a sort of relay station for young people to move forward in their lives: “These students never thought that after losing everything, they’d be able to return to school one day… we hope that during this difficult time we can go through it together, go through the road home.”
CREDITS
Producer/ Writer: Felicia Hsu
Producer/ Editor: Yung-Su Hsu
Cinematographer: Ahmad Sheki
Having witnessed the horrors of civil war in Syria, and now relocated to Turkiye, young Najwa often remembers her mother. “I want to tell her that I love and miss her,” she says.
Now, at El Menahil International School, which boasts a uniquely exclusive body of students relocated from Syria to Istanbul, Najwa has a safe place to express her grief among others with similar stories.
Tzu Chi Turkey’s Nadya Chou explains that, with its sensitive programming for students, “El Menahil is a relay station for good, a relay station for life, which gets them out of suffering and brings them to the other side of joy.”
Nadya’s husband and fellow volunteer Faisal Hu underscores that the school is meant to provide not just a formal education, but a sort of relay station for young people to move forward in their lives: “These students never thought that after losing everything, they’d be able to return to school one day… we hope that during this difficult time we can go through it together, go through the road home.”
CREDITS
Producer/ Writer: Felicia Hsu
Producer/ Editor: Yung-Su Hsu
Cinematographer: Ahmad Sheki
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