Beirut Explosion Emergency Fund 50 Families

Dear Supporters,

It has been 475 long and painful days since the tragic Beirut explosion, and we're about to terminate this campaign on GlobalGiving.

Thank you all for stepping in immediately to provide much-needed funding to support various NGOs in food distribution, rebuilding efforts, and relief for cancer patients. Several months after the explosion, some funds continued to flow into this campaign, and we chose to donate them directly to two families: one family with two orphaned children, and another family, with three little children, who lost its sole breadwinner.

Now, more than one year later, the funds coming into this campaign have understandably decreased significantly as other urgent needs take priority. As a result, we have decided to deactivate this campaign and to continue to focus on fundraising for our existing programs related to youth entrepreneurship and employment - supporting a number of youth who were directly affected by the explosion as well as the current finanical crisis. 

For any of you with monthly contributions, your donations will be immediately transferred to cover the stipends of unemployed, low-income youth in our employment program. However, if you wish to deactivate your contributions, please feel free to do so, bearing in mind that you have our gratitude, always. 

Once again, thank you all so much for your support!

Sincerely,

Dear Friends,

I hope you're all keeping safe in these strange times.

The past couple of years have undoubtedly been difficult for all of us. 

As we struggle to adapt to the many challenges COVID19 continues to impose, here in Lebanon, life becomes more difficult by the day. With food, power, water, medicine, fuel, and other shortages, the crisis has brought a broken country and its population to its knees. 

Millions are struggling with the collapse of basic services and the skyrocketing prices, including nineteen-year-old *Sana, whose young husband was killed in the tragic Beirut explosions, leaving her with three little kids, including a newborn to look after.

With him gone, this family has lost their source of support and the family's breadwinner to the explosion. But more importantly, Sana has lost her partner and her children will never get to know their father.

Your kind donations have enabled us to help cover the basic needs of her children, including milk, food, and diapers. We hope to continue to provide support for this family, particularly to cover expenses related to the children's education once they grow older.

Because of your generosity, this family has a fighting chance at survival and for this, we are eternally grateful. 

Sincerely,

Celine 

*Sana prefers not using her real name, and so we've had to change it for the sake of preserving her anonymity and privacy.