DAFI Scholars

The Foundation’s partnership with UNHCR and the DAFI Programme started in 2014. To date, it has enabled over 400 Syrian students to pursue undergraduate studies in their host countries of Lebanon and Jordan.

Meet some of DAFI scholars and get inspired by their stories below. More stories will be added later.

Shahem Al Boni

Shahem Al Boni was born to a well educated and financially stable family until the war eradicated all their dreams and they were forced to leave everything behind and seek refuge in Jordan. All he could see was a dark…

Mohammad Eyad

Mohammad is a fourth year Medicine student at the Hashemite University who hopes to become a cardiologist. Mohammad Eyad remembers well the horrific feeling when he realised he could no longer stay in his home country, Syria, and that he…