Quiet work.
Lasting change.
Uncle T is a foundation with a single, deliberate focus: restoring schools damaged by conflict and neglect, and returning them to the children they belong to.
A school is a year of a child's life, waiting.
Across Syria, thousands of schools sit damaged, unsafe or simply worn past use. Behind each one is a community that wants nothing more than to send its children back to a classroom they can trust.
Uncle T exists to close that gap — not with promises, but with plaster, paint, doors, desks and finished buildings. We measure ourselves by schools reopened, not statements made.
Uncle T
Every community
deserves an uncle.
In most families, the uncle is the one who simply shows up — without being asked, without waiting for the perfect moment, without needing to be thanked. He notices what a child needs, and quietly makes it happen.
Uncle T began with one man who believed a whole country could have an uncle like that. Not a distant institution, but someone who arrives where the need is real, and stays until the work is finished. What started as a single act of care became a way of working — and then a foundation that carries his name.
“A school left standing empty is a promise a child is still waiting on. I decided not to make them wait.”
Principles, not slogans.
Dignity
We finish to a standard families can be proud of. A restored school should feel cared for, not merely repaired.
Completeness
We don't leave work half-done. Every project is delivered whole — safe, clean and ready for its first day back.
Transparency
Each project is documented in photography and film. The work is the proof; we let it be seen.
Reach
From the south to the eastern river communities, we go where schools have waited longest.
To restore the ordinary rooms where children learn — completely, and with dignity.
A generation that returns to safe classrooms, in every community a school was lost.
How the work grew.
One conviction
Uncle T begins with a straightforward belief — that rebuilding a school is among the most direct, lasting things anyone can do for a community.
The reference projects
Three schools in As-Suwayda — Sakaka, Jbeib and Al-Aslaha — are restored end to end and documented in full, setting the standard for everything that follows.
Five governorates
The method repeats across Idlib, Deir ez-Zor, Homs, As-Suwayda and Hama — 44 schools restored, equipped and reopened, and counting.
The schools still waiting
The list of communities that have asked for help is longer than the list we've reached. That gap is our roadmap.
Humanity, made visible.
See the schools we've delivered — and the standard we hold ourselves to.