Volunteers are on the ground in Wavel!!

    Our volunteers landed safely in Beirut staring with Heather, our Field coordinator in mid – June, with Kristy and Chi Doan hot on her heels at the beginning of July. All have settled into their apartment in Wavel Camp, located in Baalbek, situated in the Beqaa Valley, 2 hours east of Beirut. After a few [...]

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    About CEPAL

    CEPAL is a charity whose objective is to assist the Palestinian refugees in the pursuit of their basic human rights by increasing their access to education, and by raising public awareness in Canada about their struggle. CEPAL is the only Canadian organization that works directly with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.

Refugee Stories

Palestinian Hospitality

By: Hussein El-Hajj Hussein El-Hajj tells of how getting to work is impossible because of the destruction of the roads. Those ...

Children’s Activities in Sheltering Centres

Children are increasingly being traumatized by the images of war. Naba'a has initiated several educational programs to help children cope. Extreme ...

featuredimage Children’s Comments on their Drawings During War

The children express their feelings about the war through their drawings. I am 11 years old and from Tyre. I drew ...

2010 Day of Solidarity – November 29th

As many of you probably know, the internationally recognized Day of Solidarity occurs each year on November 29th, the anniversary of United Nations Resolution 181, which partitioned Palestine and resulted in the expulsion of thousands of Palestinians from their land and homes. Each year, CEPAL holds an event on November 29th reinforcing our solidarity with Palestinians, [...]

“The Arch” newsletter is now online!

The Spring 2010 edition of “The Arch”, CEPAL’s bi-annual newsletter, is now online in PDF format. 
The newsletter contains information on our 2010 Summer Program, our 3 volunteers and how you can help CEPAL continue it’s work in the Palestinian Refugee camps in Lebanon.

Our Program

CEPAL’s Summer Program involves sending Canadian volunteers to work in three Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon: Bourj el-Barajneh and Shatila near Beirut, and Wavel in Baalbek.

Notes from Wavel – by Heather McGuffin

I had been in Lebanon for less than a day when someone said to me, “You’ll have to choose a team, you know.  Everyone’s going to ask you about it.”  This was absolutely true, as it turned out.  I had arrived in mid-June for five months of living and working in a Palestinian refugee camp, [...]