Medical care for vulnerable populations in Lebanon

Dear Friends,

We’re now fully implemented in the Beqaa valley and started the medical activities.

Every week, our medical team, made up with a doctor and two nurses provide free consultations directly in refugee camps. The needs are huge and diversified but we already managed to visit many families and children to bring a medical support.

The most common problem is the lack of access to medical infrastructure and medicines. Some cases are quite common (hypertension, flu or scabies) but some pathologies are more dangerous or haven’t be treated since a long time and might worsen.

But our action doesn’t limit itself to provide consultations and medicines but also aim to inform people.  Many of them are unaware of their rights and don’t beneficiate from them only because they ignore how or where assert their rights. This lack of information might lead to serious, yet avoidable situation. Our next step will be to carry out awareness health session in the camps to limit contagious diseases.

In the same time, we continued and developed the social/psychological aspect of the project, mainly through activities and games with children. As said before, our work with the children shows encouraging results with some positive changes in their behavior and state of mind.

Even if we’re already satisfied by the improvement of the situation we decided to experienced a new approach. During the past few weeks we trained a group of 15 unmarried female teenagers to teach them about women empowerment and child protection.  We want them to take the helm once we will leave this refugee camp to another one. The objective is twofold: keeping an eye and maintain activities in the camp even after our departure; and helping those girls by providing a small income, enough to avoid them to work illegally in a field or being financially obliged to marry someone.  

 

With your donation, Insan has been able to offer to more children an access to a psycho-social support and purchase needed equipment. We’re counting on you to help us on this amazing adventure and to be able to help them on the most efficient and holistic approach as possible.  
On behalf of the entire team, I sincerely thank you for your generosity, for your solidarity, and for your support.

We look forward to bring you more information about our project.

Warm regards,

Insan Team