I need help to start a life!

Maha Tabet Start Date: Sep 23, 2020 - End Date: Jan 22, 2021
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Professional Development
  • Study/Degree Abroad

My Travel Story

by: Maha Tabet Start Date: Sep 23, 2020 - End Date: Jan 22, 2021
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Professional Development
  • Study/Degree Abroad
Hello, 
I am a third generation Palestinian refugee in Lebanon. Over the decades, Palestinian refugees in Lebanon have not been given the rights to live as human beings. We do not have the right to work in several professions and we don't get to own property. This makes making a living extremely difficult in addition to the discrimination in society. I am an ambitious person and I aspire to get more than the mediocre life this country has to offer me. I recently got accepted in a PhD position in Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France. Of course this will be paid; however, the primary travel expanses and rents for the first months is my responsibility to cover. I have a really short time to find housing and I have to be in France sometime in November. Due to the economic crisis in Lebanon, i will not be able to afford these expanses and neither can anyone here since even lebanese citizens are not allowed to send money abroad. I'd really appreciate any type of help I can get to achieve my dreams in getting a life I deserve. Thank you!