Basic Necessities
by Melika Al-Kawas In September 2014, I traveled to Lebanon to deliver a $30,000 check to the American University of Beirut (AUB) Foundation that was going to build washing facilities in the Syrian refugee camps in the Bekaa Valley. I wanted to go to one of the refugee camps to see where these facilities would be built and how they would work. It turned out that our $30,000 would be able to provide much more than a couple of bathrooms. When I arrived at the camp, I found a f
