“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

Salam means peace & Ramadan is Peace. 

 This year, we want to make the best of Ramadan, to build bridges between people from all around the world, join us!

We believe that every month, every day and every minute should be filled with love & kindness. Why not start with Ramadan? This holy month of forgiveness and giving!

Şhams Network (Pronounced Shams -Sun in Arabic) is a social enterprise that independently generates revenue, to support programs which create positive social impact, build community wealth & directly improve the job skills of people facing barriers to personal development. Through mentorship and empowerment, we aim at building a network of local communities, that combines economic activity with social benefit, and is led by dynamic social entrepreneurs, wherever we may find them. ( www.shamsnetwork.org ) 

During the month of Ramadan of 2017, the Shams team organized and carried out a Soup Kitchen which produced and distributed about 800/1000 meals per day, in the urban refugee camps of Sabra&Shatila, at the heart of Beirut, where around 40,000 people live far below the poverty line, in a 1Km2 area.

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This year, we will be doing the same thing, but in a remote village called Al-Faour, on the far eastern side of the Beqaa Valley. Why? Because it is forgotten and abandoned, the most marginalized area in lebanon.

With an original population of around 25,000 Lebanese and Palestinian people, most of whom are unemployed and living on less than a dollar a day (some entire families live on 5$ a day), one can safely say that the town was in a very bad spot, even before the influx of Syrian refugees, which added about 3,500 people to the town, in the form of 9 small camps scattered on the outskirts of the village.

An Eco-friendly Month!

Every year, many similar Soup Kitchens end up wasting a lot of food, disposing of absurd amounts of plastic and unfortunately, animal abuse increases and goes from sacrifice, to mass killing. Which is oxymoronic to the essence and core values of the month of Ramadan.

Our Ramadan kitchen menu will be mainly plant-based, with a bare-minimum use of plastic, a proper management/disposal and recycling system for our solid waste; as well as constructive para-activities such as planting trees and other various plants between the refugee camps of Al-Faour, in an attempt to counter the inevitable degradation of the area’s flora. While our kitchen is running, we will be planting a piece of land, in the middle of 9 refugee camps. This land will include a small public park and a farming area, providing free plant-based food for the residents. 

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How can you help?

If you are an organization, you could partner with us!

or 

Please donate! 

Financial Donations will go to purchasing food and raw material. All our team members are volunteers and your money will go straight to its destination! 

We are ready to share purchase receipts, family testimonies and you are more than welcome to join us on ground OR via skype 

You could also donate using Western Union transfer ( Please send an email to info@shamsnetwork.org titled: Salam Ramadan - WU Transfer - We will send you the details)

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Please volunteer! 

If you are based in lebanon, please send an email to:

info@shamsnetwork.org titled Salam Ramadan Volunteer 

We also have accommodation for volunteers coming from abroad! Come and enjoy the spirit of giving, heal yourself by helping others.