Beirutis’ Wounds Are Still Not Healed... and MECC Continues Supporting Them

"I rely on many assistances that allow me to eat and live, then I go back to the stairs on the next street to spend the night." Alas, this is the case of a women affected by the massive crises that hit Lebanon. She lives without a shelter to protect her and the Beirut explosion came to severely deepen her wound. Likewise, many Beirutis are passing through difficult living conditions and are affected by the August 4 disaster and by different crises. Some of them are facing extreme poverty, others are still without safe housing and some have lost relatives and loved ones, fathers are unable to draw a smile on their children’s faces, many women are living without a breadwinner...

The MECC Communication and Public Relations team heard many painful stories as such, in the capital’s heart, while accompanying the Service and Relief Department - Diakonia, Beirut office, in a humanitarian mission to support Beirutis through a new batch of aid that sows hope among them.

The Diakonia Department provided vouchers allowing the destitute beneficiaries the purchase of cleaning supplies, in addition to face masks boxes and sanitizers to harness them against the Coronavirus. Noting that “The Listening Station” organization handled their distribution in Mar Mikhael region.

With sincere gratitude and a trembling voice, one of the beneficiaries said, "my wife, who suffers from cancer, was also hurt in the Beirut Port Blast while she was in one of the capital’s hospitals to have a chemotherapy session. Consequently, she suffered from psychological disorder which prompted her to attempt suicide! My house was also damaged...”.

With tears in his eyes and an aching heart, he describes the difficult living conditions that his family is passing through, worsening with the exacerbation of crises, especially economic crises that hit the country… “we can rarely put bread on our table daily…”.

He added, “We have been affected on various levels, especially psychological and financial... My children's lives aren’t normal anymore like all the other children, they are unable to continue their online studies due to the lack of required technologies!”.