Your Help is Reaching Those Who Need it in Lebanon

Our partners in Lebanon received your $20,000, as we reported on June 16, and you can see some of their work in the accompanying photos (click on the links). Here is a report from the Lebanese member of our steering committee, whose family has been directly affected with as many as ten martyrs or more:

Salam dear brothers and sisters.

Please be advised that we’re trying our best to assist as much as we could.We were able to provide the following support to families in need.

• 15 families of widows with multiple children including some early teenaged girls. $7500.
• 10 families, basic needs, necessities and housing items $2500
• 20 families who returned to totally destroyed homes. Temporary shelters and  other needs. $10000.

Through direct network and contacts, we were able to assist families with young children with medications, baby formula, hygiene and other needs.The situation is very difficult for thousands of families as you could count. We will continue to do our most possible ways to assist.

Thank you for your amazing support!

The area that we have been able to help is north of Nabatiyeh, the largest non-coastal city in southern Lebanon. More than 1.2 million of the roughly 1.5 million inhabitants of the south are now refugees, but significant numbers are returning despite their homes having been destroyed and in defiance of the Israeli order requiring the population to vacate the south, which looks increasingly like Gaza, with its towns and cities turned into rubble through bombing and demolition. The Israelis did the same in 2006, but the Lebanese resistance was able to eject them and everything was rebuilt. The Lebanese are very stubborn, and assume that they will do the same this time, even though the death toll is more than three times as high (over 3000).

Let’s hope that the MoU between the US and Iran will rid Lebanon of the Israeli invaders. In the meantime, we will continue sending all of your donations to Lebanon during the current crisis, for distribution to those in need. All of the work is done by volunteers, and all of the aid goes to material support for the needy. Visit our donate page for information on how to donate online or by check.