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DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE has provided $100 000 to alleviate
the suffering of those affected by the escalating violence
in Lebanon. These funds will be divided equally between two
sister organizations to help displaced families as well as
numerous refugees and migrant workers caught in the precarious
situation now facing Lebanon.
• Caritas Lebanon, a Catholic development organization
working for impoverished people in the country, will provide
emergency assistance to displaced families in South Lebanon
and Greater Beirut. With children a priority, 50,000 families
in need will find shelter and comfort and will receive food
and medical assistance within the framework of this program.
This emergency support began during the first days of the
conflict and will continue if necessary for two months.
• Caritas Lebanon - Migrant Center (CLMC) will
come to the aid of hundreds of migrant workers and refugees
in Beirut, by providing them with shelter, food and medicine.
The beneficiaries of this program are men and women refugees
from diverse countries as well as workers from the Middle
East, Africa and Asia. They will be housed at the Saint
Vincent Daughters of Charity convent located in the mountains
north of Beirut. The project begins immediately and will
last three months.
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Caritas Lebanon - Migrant Center |
These emergency relief projects follow on the heels of a
project supported by DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE last June in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip, which provided $80,000 to Caritas
Jerusalem, to help 2 600 people in need in the Palestinian
territories.
Similarly to DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE, Caritas Lebanon and the
CLMC are members of Caritas Internationalis, a network
of 162 autonomous, Catholic, emergency relief, development
and social service organizations working in 200 countries
and territories. These projects in Lebanon will be coordinated
in collaboration with Lebanese officials, as well as with
other NGOs and United Nations agencies in the region.
To help finance our efforts for victims of the conflict in
the Middle East, please send your donations to "Emergency
in the Middle East" via the Internet at www.devp.org/testA/donation.htm,
by calling 1-888-664-3387 or by sending a cheque to:
DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE
1425 René-Lévesque Blvd. West, 3rd Floor
Montréal (Québec) H3G 1T7
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