When the conflict escalated in Lebanon, Sana Shams Al-Din didn't have time to think. She had minutes to grab what she could along with her 3 sons, ages 10-14, and run out the door. She left behind her home and the life she had built in Jbaa.
What followed was equally excruciating: the waiting, the uncertainty, and the recurring question, “How do I feed my children today?”
Sana and her husband, Yahya, are among thousands of displaced Lebanese families now sheltering in schools across Saida. These buildings were never meant to be homes but are now overflowing with people who had nowhere else to go.
Food, clean water, and bread, the things most of us don't think twice about, became their greatest hardship.
That changed when Zakat Foundation of America's Emergency Response team arrived.
Sana received a food parcel, fresh bread, and clean water. Her boys sat down for a real meal, maybe the first in days.
"This parcel lifted a weight we were carrying," she said. "We left our village with nothing, but today we were remembered. May God reward everyone who made this possible."
