On March 5th, 2026, students of the “Collège de la Sainte-Famille” in Fanar, Lebanon, received the Palm of Honour of the 2026 French Education Abroad (EFE) network. This prestigious distinction highlights inspiring initiatives led by students/educational communities within the French network abroad.
If you wish, you can listen to this beautiful song composed by the Lebanese students. Their brief video starts with the following inspiring written message: “To Afghan women, to all women deprived of their freedom, to those who fight, to those who hope… we sing for you.”
Following the song, you can read the YouTube description of this project as well a quick English translation of its original French lyrics; thank you Mr. Google Translate.
“When students decide to use their voices for those who no longer have them.
At the Collège de la Sainte-Famille in Fanar, Lebanon, students wrote a song entitled “By Us, For Them” to support young Afghan girls deprived of education.
Their message is simple:
📚 Education is a universal right.
This project was awarded the Palme d’honneur of the 2026 French Education Abroad (EFE) network, a distinction that highlights inspiring initiatives led by students and educational communities within the French network abroad.
The song was written by eleventh-grade students and gives voice to millions of girls around the world who are fighting for their right to learn.
If this initiative resonates with you, please share it.
Because sometimes, a song can carry the message of the freedom to learn far and wide”.
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English LYRICS of “By us, For them” [“Par nous, pour elles”]
“They stole my books but not my memory. I keep it in my palm.
They closed the door on me but
[music]
not my thoughts.
I still dream of school amidst regrets. Even in our circumstances, let’s learn to sing
or have my wings burned. I will rise again from the wax of my voice despite everything.
[music]
I will fly away. I will fly away.
Silence will never be stronger than thoughts.
With my broken pencils, I want to write in the dark on the
[music]
invisible and invincible walls of memory.
Give me
[music]
the education I deserve, this learning we walk, this light we ascend. Help me to overcome
[music]
this merit, this learning we give, this light we surpass.
[Music]
Help me through this life and then I will fly [Music] to the realm of knowledge.
Carried by
[Music]
my voice, I will fly higher than the night. There, where each time illuminates the equality
that he lives, I sing then for myself, for you, and for [Music] all those who know that the redemption of the world must pass through
[Music]
her.
Through us, for her.
I will rise again, I will rise again, I will rise again”.
