Ayadina Association founding president, Maya Najjar, was deeply moved by the following lines taken from “The Happy Prince” by Oscar Wild:
Message From the Founding President
“When I was alive and had a human heart,” … “I did not know what tears were, for I lived in the Palace of Sans-Souci, where sorrow is not allowed to enter … Round the garden ran a very lofty wall, but I never cared to ask what lay beyond it, everything about me was so beautiful… and happy indeed I was, if pleasure be happiness. So I lived, and so I died. And now that I am dead they have set me up here so high that I can see all the ugliness and all the misery of my city, and though my heart is made of lead yet I cannot choose but weep.”
We too can see all the ugliness and all the misery of our city
We dared and cared to look beyond the wall
We chose not to weep
This is how Ayadina Association was born.
Maya Georr Najjar
Founding President