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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,
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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