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The Seeds of Hope Home

A roof, meals, clothing and a way to school for about twenty children, in a house facing the sea.

The Home’s long gallery, with stone walls and red shutters.
Photo: Diana, July 2025

What the Home gives every child

The Seeds of Hope Home occupies the house of the late Bishop Zacharie Melki in Harissa, on the heights overlooking the Mediterranean. Opened in 1990, it welcomes children aged 5 to 15 who are orphaned or whose families cannot provide for their well-being or education.

  • School
  • Food
  • Clothing
  • Support
A bedroom at the Home with three beds under blue bedspreads and an arched window.
Photo: Diana, July 2025
The Home’s study room, with rows of desks, bookshelves and arched windows.
Photo: Diana, July 2025

The house, from the gate to the view

  • The Home’s entrance arch, bearing the name “Association St Zacharie” in French and Arabic.

    The gate

  • The Home’s large living room, with arched windows and red sofas.

    The living room

  • A gravel path under palm trees leads to the Home’s garden, with the sea in the distance.

    The path

  • The Home’s terraced garden with its swings, below the house.

    The garden

  • View from Harissa over the bay and the coast, with solar panels on a roof in the foreground.

    The view

Photos: Diana, July 2025 · Saint-Zacharie Association

A house that has become too small

In its current state, the house can only welcome about twenty children. With the crisis Lebanon is going through, the needs keep growing. That is the purpose of our future project: to restore and restructure the house so it can welcome about forty.

A monthly gift lets the Home carry out its mission steadily, all year round.

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