Tag: refugees

Virginity tests carry prison sentence in Malta

Malta criminalizes virginity testing.

Turkey’s all electric Togg EV

Turkey launches its first EV company, an all electric car called TOGG.

Plentiful rain not enough to grow the wheatfields of Syria

If you look to what was brewing before the Syrian civil war, it was clear that people there were suffering from the effects of climate change. Environmentalists warned that extended droughts there would cause hunger, poverty and unrest. The conditions were right about a decade ago for the poor conditions to foment to a very unfavourable civil war with millions of Syrians displaced to Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, Europe and even Canada.

World’s first hydroponic community garden for refugees

A new project in a troubled neighbourhood of Tel Aviv, Neve Sha'anan, is attempting to connect people to their food traditions using hydroponics, a novel and sustainable way for community gardening.

Syrian refugees list their tent on Airbnb

Take empathy to a new level by living just like a displaced person. A group of Syrian refugees advertised...

Israel’s biggest green group plants a project in support of Syrian refugees

Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael or in English, Jewish National Fund (KKL- JNF), is the Israel-based non-profit founded on principals of...

Yezidis get winter aid from Israelis

Green Prophet's own Laurie Balbo has spearheaded relief efforts to warm Syrian refugees in Northern Jordan. She and her...

World’s largest trash mural makes life in Syria a little less awful

Anyone who hasn't been to Syria in the last few years can't possibly grasp the full extent of the...

4,000 Handmade Hats Collected for Syrian Refugees by this Green Prophet

What started as a few throwaway balls of yarn to a tiny knitter in Jordan's Zaatari Syrian refugee camp...

Gabriele Galimberti Shows Middle East Kids and Their Toys

Gabriele Galimberti's“Toy Stories" documents the world's children posed with their favorite toys. Everyone remembers their most prized possessions.  Mine were...

Climate Change (Officially) Contributed to Somalia Famine

Up to 100,000 people died in Somalia during the 2011 famine that devastated the Horn of Africa, and British...

Why Syrian Refugees Burn Crude Oil and Risk Health to Stay Warm

Tomato and potato soup being cooked on an open fire at Qah Camp for displaced Syrians. Camp officials say...