Lebanon

EMERGENCY AID FOR DISPLACED LEBANESE CHILDREN

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More than a million displaced persons in schools or on the streets of Lebanon, out of a total population of five million... A quarter of the inhabitants of Lebanon have lost everything and are living in fear and pain from the constant bombardments!

With Mission Enfance, which has been active in Lebanon for over thirty years, we act on behalf of displaced children, through our teams on the ground, distributing our support in hand to the families who welcome them. Our distributions are targeted and precise, and each recipient signs our receipts.

These host families feed an average of 20 displaced people with our food vouchers. With €200, we provide them with a month's survival and heating.

The displaced children receive psychological support from two health professionals at our centre on the Bekaa Plateau. They are able to put into words the trauma, grief, violence and pain they have suffered.

The Lebanese, plunged into a dramatic economic crisis, are nevertheless committed to helping the victims of this war on their territory. But their reserves are dwindling. We must act quickly!

Let's answer their call and give them a little hope!

Goal

RELIEVE THE LIVES OF THE LEBANESE PEOPLE, WHILE WAITING FOR THE SITUATION TO EVOLVE
SUPPORT PRIVAT SCHOOL, WHICH GUARANTEES A GOOD EDUCATION FOR THE CHILDREN

Since the explosion in the port of Beirut in August 2020, Mission Enfance has been constantly distributing emergency supplies to students, families and teachers... We operate via the educational centers we have been supporting for nearly 30 years in Lebanon. We will be financing the schooling of Syrian and Lebanese children in our two centers in Deir Al Ahmar (Bekaa plain) and Roueisset (Beirut suburbs). Support for Christian populations fleeing southern Lebanon is currently being evaluated.

Since 2019, Lebanon has been going downhill. The country's bankruptcy, the collapse of the Lebanese pound, government corruption and the country's "ungovernability" are having terrible economic repercussions for the Lebanese people. Today, 80% of the Lebanese population lives below the poverty line. One hour's electricity a day, hours of queuing to buy increasingly expensive petrol, the suspension of state subsidies causing price inflation for wages in LBP which have not increased for 2 years and are equivalent to one full tank of petrol a month, are all leading to the disappearance of the middle class.

 

Below is the testimony of Perla, 20 years old, a biology student at the University of Beirut in Lebanon, who testifies to the emergency aid distributed by Mission Enfance. Fatherless, she lives alone with her mother. Perla suffers from chronic asthma. Her mother's salary amounts to 1.500.000 LL (69€). The monthly treatment to cure Perla's disease is 800.000 LL (37€)...