Essam Daod was one of those workers. A trained physician from Israel, Daod was finishing his residency in child psychiatry when the refugee crisis began to escalate. He and his wife Maria Jammal ...
In late 2015, Dr Essam Daod found himself standing on a beach in Greece. The psychiatrist and other volunteers watched as numerous small boats, filled with hundreds of people fleeing war and ...
Essam Daod, the founder of Humanity Crew, first volunteered in a refugee camp as physician, but he soon realized that no one was there to help refugees cope with their more invisible traumas.
The average person runs away from chaos, but that is often when our special skills are needed the most. Psychologist, TED Fellow and Humanity Crew co-founder Dr. Essam Daod specializes in crisis ...
THE STATISTICS are appalling. According to the United Nations refugee agency, there are 66 million displaced persons in the world – asylum seekers and refugees (25 million) or internally displaced (41 ...
Jouhan Daod was a household name in Syria when he was on the national soccer team. Though he’s lived in Brooklyn for 11 years, Daod is still serving his native land by transforming the Olive Vine Cafe ...
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Only a “miracle” prevented major casualties in the fire which destroyed Europe’s largest refugee camp and left thousands homeless, a volunteer worker on the Greek island of Lesbos has claimed. The ...
In Lesbos, Greece, young refugees cope with a growing mental health crisis. 12 year old Riham Saad is Syrian. Her father is from Sudan. She was born and raised in Damascus. She left Syria with her ...