IMPACT CAMPAIGN WORKSHOPS

SHARE YOUR STORY - COMMUNITY VOICES

After our film screenings, we encourage our audience to share their stories with us in relation to the film themes as a way for more voices in the community to be heard. If you have watched WE NEVER LEFT and would like to share your story, please contact us at weneverleftdoc@gmail.com

“This is a powerful film that brought back for me the trauma of my youth living in Beirut in the 1975 to 1976 civil war and demonstrates the tragedy of Lebanon over the decades”

“Definitely, this evoked a lot of emotions regarding my family and I’s experience during the Arab Spring in 2011-2013 looking at what was happening in Tahrir.”

“I immigrated to the US as a child from Pakistan, and related so deeply to the idea of being neither here nor there, belonging to a liminal space in-between. And the idea of struggling to effect change from afar.”

“I’m also a first generation immigrant though I have a few people from a few generations back. Some stayed and others went back to Japan. Anyway, guilt, anxiety and unease to be “in between” are feelings I share with the film. My home country is also going through a lot of changes and I share the sentiment that I wish I didn't have to leave.”

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

In this past very unstable year, our community has been needing a lot of support of all kinds. And whether you’re from the community and need mental health support or you want to provide support by donating to nonprofit organizations, this page is for you.

HOW YOU CAN HELP LEBANON

SWANA MENTAL HEALTH HELP

  • Embrace Lebanon (Mental health help in Lebanon)

  • HEAL Beirut (Free telehealth for people living in Lebanon)

  • HELEM (LGBTQIA+ SWANA organization)

  • AMALY (Individual and group therapy for Women, Muslims, BIPOC)

EMERGENCY RELIEF MUTUAL AID

SWANA RESOURCES