Our understanding of Al-Huras reflects our understanding of our role toward the future. The idea of Al-Huras is a youth call to every free and honourable person to claim their role in the course of global, regional and national events — a role shaped by young people’s resolve and fed by our mature sense of responsibility toward our causes. It is a role that turns into action through program tools that provide an incubator for youth leadership in every field, and a role that takes shape as a form of national work.
The natural response to everything happening in the world puts us before two choices: either silent stillness, turning away from change and accepting the equations of slackness, weakness and decline; or taking part in the process of change and improving reality — which necessarily rests on each of us deciding not to be a passing number in history, a person of shaken values, or just someone overtaken by a pain and slackness that has reached the very depths of their beauty. And so… either we make history… or our hands perish in its folds.
In the refugee camps, our will and resolve came together over years, to turn the results of our experiences into a clear reference framework we call the Al-Huras approach. It is our method, rooted in our Arab culture, born of popular learning that believes in the power of peoples, in organizing their relationships and developing their social fabric by relying on their own strength and leading themselves. Our experience was built on the belief that “the human being is the most precious thing we have”, that “you have something in this world, so rise”, that we are “condemned to hope”, that “there is no excuse for one who grasped the idea and abandoned it”, that “the journey has not begun, nor has the road ended”, that “a little work is better than tons of preaching”, that “we will not find the sun in a closed room”, that “a noble idea often needs not to be understood, but to be felt”, that we should “straighten our stature like spears and not tire”, and that we “stand with those at the bottom”.
So where do you stand in this caravan — if you want to knock on the walls of the tank?