Anera in the News

Anera’s Niki Erickson brings a plea for international support to the readership of her home state newspaper after recently meeting with Syrian refugee communities in tented makeshift settlements in Lebanon.

As the Syrian refugee crisis spreads to Europe, Anera president Bill Corcoran urges the international community not to forget about the many millions of Syrian refugees in the Middle East, nor about the host countries like Lebanon that have severely strained resources.

Anera President Bill Corcoran talks about the plight of 1.3 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon and the challenges organizations like Anera face in providing services to refugees spread haphazardly throughout the nation.

Marwa Dirawi graduated from high school in Lebanon with the support of an Anera scholarship. She scored second nationally on the Lebanese National Levels and will go on to study mechatronic engineering in college. .

The 2014 war in Gaza left the economy and thousands of families devastated. Anera released a a report discussing the extent of the damage and determining the needs for recovery.

An editorial on the state of Gaza one year after the Israeli military invasion in July 2014. Includes quotations from Anera president Bill Corcoran about the challenges of raising money to help a region that so often faces major destruction.

Anera has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Qatar Red Crescent to conduct a project to deliver drinking water to several districts of Gaza City. The half million dollar project will start by the end of August 2015.  and on Al Watan Voice.

A brief article introducing Anera’s new water project with Qatar Red Crescent, which will alleviate suffering for 120,000 people by giving them access to clean drinking water.

A brief article about Anera’s partnership with Reach Out to Asia (ROTA) to build a community sports center for youth in Nahr El Bared camp, Lebanon. ROTA goodwill ambassador and social media sensation, Ghanim al-Muftah, is helping raise funds for this project. 

In this interview, Bill Corcoran discusses problems Gaza is currently facing, such as reconstruction, unemployment, restrictions and political obstacles. He also explains Anera’s history in the region and gives some updates on current projects in Gaza and the West Bank. Read the story in .

An article profiling Halima Hamdan from Al-Khasa village in East Bethlehem. Her story is one of suffering and unceasing resilience. 

In an interview with Georgia State University’s Turkey “Study Abroad Think Tank,” Anera president Bill Corcoran discusses the difficulties in delivering service to refugees amid compounding crises in the Middle East.

Anera president Bill Corcoran speaks at North Carolina State University about the severity of issues faced by Palestinians in Gaza and Syrian refugees in Lebanon. 

In an article about the aftermath of recent violence in Gaza, Anera President Bill Corcoran talks about the emotional and psychological damage inflicted on Gaza’s youngest residents.

With refugees from Syria and Palestine now accounting for one-fourth of Lebanon’s population, an op-ed by Anera’s Bill Corcoran addresses the shortfall of aid and resources in a crisis far from over.