Escalating since October 2019, the political and economic crisis is driving Lebanon to the brink of bankruptcy. The tragic situation has been exacerbated by a gigantic explosion of chemicals stored in Beirut’s seaport. The middle class has virtually ceased to exist. Educated citizens are fleeing hyperinflation, rising unemployment, power cuts and fuel shortages.
21.01.2023
Aida is a grandmother, living in Lebanon – a country where the value of the local currency drops so much every day that buying a loaf of bread puts a serious strain on the household budget.
A searing cold seeps into the rooms that Aida and Jeanne, her daughter, cannot heat. They can no longer afford to buy fuel oil. The cold doesn’t help with the chronic pain that Aida’s grandmother has been dealing with for years.
Today is Grandmother’s Day, a holiday that expresses our gratitude for the effort put into raising our grandchildren. Aida’s granddaughter is still too young to understand the difficulties the whole family faces. Her gift is the sincerest loving child’s arms with which she hugs Aida on this cold January morning. It is a kiss on her grandmother’s cold cheek. We dream of giving her one more gift – fuel oil and really effective painkillers that she has not been able to afford since the crisis broke out in 2019.
If you have a spare place in your heart for Grandma Aida, we ask you to buy a voucher for fuel oil or a package of medicines to give as a beautiful gift today.
03.10.2024
“People are sleeping on the beach, in parks, and in cars,” says our contact in Beirut. Chaos has overtaken Lebanon as Israel begins its ground invasion of the country. Our hope that the world would step in, that no one would allow this escalation, has been shattered. It’s happening now. Israel has opened a new […]
08.08.2024
“All the embassies are calling their diplomats back, our government has practically ceased to exist. We’ve been left to survive on our own. Meanwhile, prices in stores have skyrocketed so high that we can’t afford anything. Officially, there’s no war yet, but it’s already a fight for survival,” says Dr. Elie Harouny, with whom Good […]
22.01.2024
On Grandma’s Day, our thoughts turn to the elderly women who will receive no flowers today. Perhaps they are forgotten by all. We think of 80-year-old Laudie, a senior living on the outskirts of Byblos, Lebanon. The nuns took her in when she lost everything. No one visits Laudie, even though she devoted her life […]
