What is ALC?

Adventist Learning Center provides quality, faith-based education to Syrian and Kurdish Refugees living in Beirut, Lebanon. Teachers from around the world come together to create a safe, stable, and loving environment where refugee kids can learn academics, character growth, and more about God.

Adventist Learning Center is a project of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and was started through their support. However, it is only through the generosity of private individuals around the world that it is able to remain open each year.

Join us in helping keep the door open for these precious children! Your generosity will give them an education now that will help them rebuild their lives and pursue productive meaningful futures.

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ALC's Mission

1st to 8th Grade Education

A full scale of academics for students in 1st to 8th grade is provided to approximately 130 students each year.

These children have no other access to education due to over-crowding in public Lebanese schools and limited places for non-Lebanese students.

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Lunch Program

Each student, volunteer and staff at Adventist Learning Center are provided with a healthy lunch during the course of the school year. ALC is able to provide plates of food costing approximately $1.26 each. Many of the students face poor nutrition at home and they are able to have a healthy balanced meal at least once per day.

All meals are vegetarian and include an entree (such as rice, pasta, beans, lentils, potatoes or hummus), something fresh (such as salad, fruits, or chopped veggies), and bread. Occasionally, eggs and yogurt are served.

Sponsorship

For a suggested $45 a month, you can partner with a child's family and other supporting donors to ensure students have access to a quality education and a brighter future.

Students send and receive letters from their sponsors during the school year.

If you want to sponsor a whole classroom, please contact us.

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Center of Influence

As a Center of Influence in the MENA (Middle East North Africa) Union, ALC also works to positively impact the whole family through relationship building during regular home visitations, adult English & Arabic literacy classes, health education, and spiritual programs.

ALC's Impact

"Volunteering [at ALC] helped me know what I want to do in the future."
Ahilla Fares, ALC Alumna, Studying Pre-Med to become a Doctor

ALC Students "Pay it Forward"

Syrian Refugee Children Warm Hearts at Tent Camp in Middle East

Diana's Story

Syrian Refugee Girl’s Light Shines at Adventist School

From Deadly Bombs to a God-Led Future

In Lebanon, the Adventist Learning Center is giving meaning and purpose to young refugees.

“We have to do our best in the time that we have. We don’t know what will happen, but we have an opportunity to do our best now.”
Salwa, 13, organized a group of girls over the summertime that chose an elderly person to visit once a week.

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