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From Rubble to Resilience: What Gaza Teaches Us on World Refugee Day

Opinion by Mariam Al Hammadi, Director General of The Big Heart Foundation, on World Refugee Day


Sharjah, June 19, 2024

On World Refugee Day, let’s shift our perspective. Rather than focusing solely on what we can provide to refugees, let us acknowledge the depth and immensity of the life lessons we can learn from their resilience, strength and their human spirit.

Mariam Al Hammadi, Director General of The Big Heart Foundation, on World Refugee Day

As I share this observation, there are over 2 million of these lessons coming out of Gaza, whose people, though fraught by an unprecedented humanitarian crisis for over 250 days, continue to teach us that in the age where nations enjoy their most advanced militaries the world has even seen, the power of collective human spirit is undefeatable. It still is our greatest global strength.

(240521) — DEIR AL-BALAH, May 21, 2024 (Xinhua) — Children have fun with a volunteer at a temporary school in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, May 20, 2024. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)
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