Christian College Kids Raise $800K in 2 Days for Women’s Hospital in Syria

When Christian college students set out to help build a hospital for women and children in Syria, they didn’t need a miracle to raise beyond enough money in a single day.

The students were attending an annual conference called Passion, a global gathering of college-age students that attracted 40,000 attendees over the past weekend in Atlanta, Georgia and Houston, Texas.

The passionate youth at the arena events, and others online watching the live-stream, donated $785,000 on the first day of the campaign alone.

The $811,813 raised in two days was more than the $575,000 needed for “Project Haraka,” the planned hospital that will serve 12,000 people a year in northwest Syria, including refugees in nearby camps. It will feature the country’s first newborn intensive care unit.

The extra $236,000 raised at Passion will go toward medical care for an additional 10,000 people in the country.

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