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 in 2020. The middle class has virtually ceased to exist. Educated citizens are fleeing hyperinflation, unemployment which rises every month, power cuts and fuel shortages.
28.10.2021
Thank you so much for responding to our appeal yesterday to support the sick in Lebanon. Prices of services and products are now raging all over the world, but in recent months, the rate of inflation in Lebanon cannot be compared with any other crisis since the 19th century. A 400% increase in food prices and a 90% depreciation of the Lebanese pound have pushed 80% of the population to the brink of poverty. Poverty in the sense that the purchase of a single strip of paracetamol, buying just 20 litres of petrol or the purchase of a pack of sanitary pads has become a luxury few can afford.
Just look at the faces of the people we are helping, at the gratitude and hope in their eyes that you inspire when you provide them with the absolute fundamental thing for human dignity – medicines, without which they are unable to function.
At The Good Factory, we never ask you for large sums of money. The fight against the dramatically unfair distribution of wealth should not be about shunning one Bill Gates, but about each one of us. About sparing a little of what we have.
We have been proving to you for years that crowdfunding through prayer, feelings and funds is a way to increase the amount of good in this world. With small sums of money, we can keep producing good even when we don’t have much ourselves. A pack of antibiotics, which most Lebanese can no longer afford due to the problem of inflation in Lebanon, is only 20 PLN at GoodWorks 24/7.
If you manage to chip away at your budget today for the equivalent of one coffee and cake in a café, you will gain so much more. The knowledge that you have evened the odds for someone today, that you have given the most fundamental support that everyone deserves. You will help someone affected by the horrific rate of inflation in Lebanon to get back on their feet and give them the strength to move on again through these difficult times.
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 […]
