Let kids be kids - despite everything
The highlight of the year, for all the kids we serve, is without any doubt the Summer Mountain Camp. This year's edition, for the 9th consecutive year, was under the signs of change. About a third of the youth we have served over the last twelve years have returned to Syria. But others have arrived. We welcomed Alawite families from the opposite side of the border in March, when the massacres in the coastal area of Syria were targeting them. At the summer camp, all these differences and all the worries of the world didn't matter. Let kids be kids - despite everything!
Our youth leaders prepared an amazing programme for all the younger kids who joined. Youth leaders slept over for eight days in the mountains of Akkar. The younger kids came on one special camp day where they were singing together, hunting the treasurer hidden by a sleeping princess, overcoming the evil "Thanatos" - inacted like every year by our director Friedrich - who had enchanted her... and simply had a wonderful day in the mountains: Christians and Muslims united, Lebanese as well as Syrians, Palestinians and others. Come and join us next year!
Special thanks to the Catholic Diocese of Münster in Germany and to the association Globale Brücke e.V. that sponsored this year's summer camp, amongst many other activities of our nascent interreligious youth movement.
Special thanks to the Catholic Diocese of Münster in Germany and to the association Globale Brücke e.V. that sponsored this year's summer camp, amongst many other activities of our nascent interreligious youth movement.
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