Caring for orphans is not dependent only on money. Rather, caring for them requires taking into consideration the whole process of their education, guidance, and their whole lives, especially after they have lost their home.

The expensive bill for the war in Syria is left for the children to pay for the most part. They lost their parents and their homes.

In the face of these critical humanitarian situations, Al-Sham Humanitarian Foundation, in cooperation with the Sheikh Thani Bin Abdullah Charity Foundation, initiated the Al Mahmood Care House on 1 June 2016 in Adana, Turkey, They are 17 families, including 43 children.

The Home has been established as a residential educational project that cares for orphans and their families with special emphasis on the following objectives:

-Integrating orphans in the community through rehabilitation and training programs

-Stressing a set of values, ethics and knowledge

-Highlighting entertainment and the introduction of pleasure to orphans’ hearts

-Promoting cultural, educational and religious lives of mothers

-Working to provide the orphans’ mothers with administrative, technical and vocational skills that enable them to work

The focus was also on the families of the Syrian orphans who are missing the carers in accordance with the following:

-The mother is the widow of a martyr

-The mother must be 18 years old and older

-The mother must have a school certificate or a good skill to read and write

-The age of males is  at least 12 years old, with no age limit for females

-Lack of a breadwinner

-Lack of cash liquidity, or fixed resource

-The family should be committed in terms of decency and non-smoking with an obligation to pray and a commitment to honesty and good morals

-The health status of the family should be good and there should be no diseases that hinder work, such as mental retardation

-Acceptance of a grandmother or an aunt in case there is no mother in the family

As the responsibility is huge, an internal and educational system has been put in place to control life in the home, as well as raising students’ abilities through a range of activities and events to develop skills and talents.

This house has been and continues to be a leading model that embodies the integration of orphans in the community.