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.
25.09.2025
Doumith and Charbel got up before dawn today to harvest the fruits of their work. But the vegetables from their organic farm were meant for something more—they became a symbol of renewed agency, something we are nurturing together.
We took these baskets with us to a meeting with the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Lebanon. It was not just a matter of diplomatic courtesy. It was a conversation about how we can join forces to provide real, tangible support.
Concrete ideas are already taking shape in our minds and hearts. We talked about organizing a gathering at the embassy for families, or perhaps specifically for women who, day after day, quietly and without recognition, care for their ill loved ones. We want to offer them what is often missing most: a moment of respite and the feeling of being seen and appreciated for their invisible labor.
Before Christmas, we would also like to invite those of our beneficiaries who are able to move independently to celebrate together. To break the isolation and feel a sense of community. The Ambassador expressed her wish to take part in this meeting, which is a beautiful sign of solidarity for us and for our friends in Lebanon.
Conversations like this are seeds from which we hope concrete actions will soon grow—both those that bring immediate joy and longer-term, project-based initiatives that will provide stability in the coming year. Thank you for a meeting marked by openness and a genuine willingness to cooperate.
10.12.2025
Big declarations are signed under flashing cameras, in Geneva or New York. But human rights are most often violated quietly. In a cold apartment in Lebanon, where an elderly person living alone must choose between buying medicine or food, even though they worked their whole life and the crisis has taken everything from them. At […]
21.10.2025
“The good shepherd knows his sheep, and they know him.” A truth known since biblical times comes alive here, in practice, with Doumith—a good shepherd from Lebanon. The farmyard drops steeply down a Lebanese hillside. Beyond the fence, by an unpaved road, stands a building you reach by walking down steps so low that the […]
15.10.2025
We sit on a worn-out sofa in Beirut, listening to lessons very different from those usually celebrated on Teachers’ Day. Many of them begin with the explosion that tore a cathedral-sized hole in the city. They begin with banks that shut their doors and took people’s life savings. With wars that do not end with […]