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As a part of our missions here in Jordan, SAMS has always spent a ‘day of service’ to the Jordanian people; as a gesture of good will, our physicians spend time serving low-income citizens whose access to regular health care is limited by distance and resources. It is easy to...

Zaatari is the actual refugee camp. Entry to the camp is under military guard. It is home to over 80,000 people. It costs almost 500,00$ per day to sustain the camp. That’s roughly over 6$/person to pay for food, water and whatever bare minimum is available. By population, it is...

The day started with another late night; after staying up to follow up reports and help adjust the coming day’s volunteer schedules, I got up early to open the medication room and helped others to get their needed meds for the day. I was scheduled to spend a second day...

  Starting the day with the tragic reality of sadness…I knew it was bad when my translator, Dema Alzein, started tearing up before she could tell me what the patient had said. Followed by a brief moment of happiness at the end of the day.

“Doctor, he won’t eat. He won’t take any milk, either.” I look down at a bawling 21 month old, his mouth covered with sugary glaze; his attempts to fight me off from examining him are futile, given he won’t let go of the lollipop he has fisted tightly in each...

I couldn’t sleep last night. At 4, I woke up, my jetlagged body allowing my mind to race; after a while I simply got up and began to prepare. I Facetimed my kids and my wife separately, everyone carrying out their usual routines without me. My absence from home gnaws...

As you probably know by now … I had an incredible opportunity to visit Jordan and get to know Amman and its hospitality and that’s something I’m very grateful for. Although I didn’t have a lot of free time to tour the country, we did sneak in a couple of...

On February 15, a pregnant woman seeking care at the Azaz Hospital in Aleppo died along with nine other civilians when the hospital was targeted by missiles. The hospital, one of the largest OB/GYN clinics in Northern Syria, was destroyed. Destruction of women’s health facilities is one of the reasons...

November 25 to December 10th is designated by the UN as the 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence. The conflict in Syria and the struggles of displacement put Syrian  women at a high risk of gender-based violence. These 16 organizations provide women with psychosocial care, skills workshops and...

In 2014, SAMS supported over 1.4 million Syrians in need, and we have already supported over 2 million Syrians in 2015 so far. We hope that you will consider donating to the lifesaving medical and humanitarian work of SAMS to help us continue to impact the lives of Syrians in...

The United Nations designates November 25 as the official day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. This day is the first of the 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence, culminating with Human Rights Day on December 10. The UN estimates that 1 in 3 women have experienced...

The Syrian refugee crisis has been worked on and addressed by dozens of governments, international organizations, and disaster response teams. However, the often overlooked and arguably most effective organizations to address the crisis have been the civil society and local organizations on the ground in Syria and in neighboring countries....