“You’re so lovely to remember me,” Roger says, his voice trembling with emotion. Each word is already soaked with tears — a mixture of gratitude and fear. “Good Factory, thanks to you I’m not alone. The shelling is terrible. The explosions are deafening, but I’m okay. In our neighborhood, for now, it’s still safe.”Roger is […]

Kadidia feels guilty. Her daughter, Aissata, was born with cerebral palsy. The family blamed the child’s disability on the mother. She arrived at the center in deep depression. Here, day by day, she learned how to live again. Today she smiles and wants to share her story. What Nicole, Sister Lucile, the physiotherapists, nurses, and […]

“Momtaz, it’s 30 September 2017, 8:00 a.m. The nightmare begins. Where exactly were you then?” We show Momtaz a map of the village of Tola Tuli and ask her to focus. During conversations with residents of the settlement whom we have managed to find, we add more details to the hand-drawn sketch. It is not […]

“Health… I suppose just health,” Jan says when asked what he wishes for in the new year. But he isn’t sure. He hesitates, searching. More guessing than answering—trying to remember what people usually say in moments like this. “Is health enough?” There is no answer to the second question. Jan is afraid to dream, afraid […]

We’ve just returned from field outreach. Today, the Warm Package had to reach places where warmth suddenly ran out. Morning alerts about blizzards and freezing temperatures set the tone for our afternoon at Good Factory. And now the memories of today’s meetings with the people we support are tugging at our sleeves, asking us to […]

Big declarations are signed under flashing cameras, in Geneva or New York. But human rights are most often violated quietly. In a cold apartment in Lebanon, where an elderly person living alone must choose between buying medicine or food, even though they worked their whole life and the crisis has taken everything from them. At […]

“The good shepherd knows his sheep, and they know him.” A truth known since biblical times comes alive here, in practice, with Doumith—a good shepherd from Lebanon. The farmyard drops steeply down a Lebanese hillside. Beyond the fence, by an unpaved road, stands a building you reach by walking down steps so low that the […]

We sit on a worn-out sofa in Beirut, listening to lessons very different from those usually celebrated on Teachers’ Day. Many of them begin with the explosion that tore a cathedral-sized hole in the city. They begin with banks that shut their doors and took people’s life savings. With wars that do not end with […]