Joud is a second-grade student in primary school. She transferred from Ghassan Kanafani School to SOS Children's Villages School after the teaching staff at her previous school struggled to support her due to the lack of a special education teacher.

After a long journey of resilience, the awaited day finally came: Tamer succeeded in his high school exams the Tawjihi and enrolled in university to study physiotherapy.

Iman, a ten-year-old girl with an innocent smile and a gentle personality, joined SOS Children's Village Rafah in 2020 with her older siblings

Jamila, a quiet child with a lovable personality and a warm smile, studies in the seventh grade in the city of Bethlehem.

Cradled gently in the arms of a rescue worker was a tiny baby boy, just one day old, with a tuft of dark hair and a wrinkled face. "His mother was injured and died while giving birth," explained the worker with a heavy heart. This baby, so new to the world, already carried the weight of loss and chaos, but he would be safe here.

“The children were expected to regress after such a long break from school, but when I heard from Ruba’s teacher about her progress in classroom skills and the assessment of her speed of memorization, I was very optimistic,” said Mutaz Lubbad, a psychologist at the SOS Children’s Village Rafah program, who is working with the children in Bethlehem.