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Share on whatsapp Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email “My heart aches due to poverty,” says Zeina, who is only 9 years old, to describe the difficult conditions she and her family have to survive, as they face the deteriorating economic conditions and the COVID-19 pandemic. Zeina echoed shocking words to us … Read more

Share on whatsapp Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email “This was supposed to be the most beautiful stage of my life, but motherhood turned to hell.” That is how Inass describes her reality! She is a mother of two children, the oldest of which is two and a half years old. Inass … Read more

Share on whatsapp Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email Right there on the floor sits Um Tawfiq scattering some overripe green plants to prepare for dinner. A smile appears on her wrinkled face which carries a pain that one can almost hear in her words when she says: “It takes up to … Read more

Share on whatsapp Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email “Thank Allah, the Lord of the Worlds”, is a phrase that the 50-year-old Abu Tariq has always repeated to summarize his daily suffering. You see him sitting with his crutch and weary look on his face reflecting the cruelty of the years he … Read more

Share on whatsapp Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email Tahani a single mom in her thirties who got divorced 8 years ago. She escaped the conflict in Syria to seek refuge in one of URDA’s managed refugee camps in Aarsal. Tahani lives now with her parents and three other families in one … Read more

Share on whatsapp Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email Noura lives in a slum in North Lebanon, with an overburdened parents in a small, dilapidated room, where every day that Noura lives is a battle for survival. One can always see her so confused that it makes it difficult for her to … Read more

Share on whatsapp Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email Beirut, Lebanon – March 1, 2021 A year after the beginning of the economic crisis in Lebanon and the COVID-19 pandemic, and after the World Bank’s latest forecast that more than half of Lebanon’s population will fall below the poverty line in 2021, … Read more

Share on whatsapp Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email In a flimsy tent in Bellanet Al Hissa refugee camp in Akkar, North Lebanon, lives Um Hussein all alone, counting the days she will have to spend outside her homeland before leaving this world for good. Um Hussein, who is the oldest refugee … Read more

Share on whatsapp Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email On Sunday, 21 December 2021, the Union of Relief and Development Associations (URDA) distributed 60 food parcels to 60 Lebanese families in the town of Al-Qdam, a Lebanese village in Baalbek district. Al-Qdam municipality’s mayor Naji Al-Hadchiti stressed that the situation of the … Read more