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.
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 a train station, where we avert our eyes from someone who has lost their home—and with it, the right to be seen.
Today is Human Rights Day. We hear a lot about freedom and equality. We want to speak about the most basic right of all, written into Article 25: the right not to go hungry. And the right to live with dignity.
In our tradition, we set an extra place at the table. An empty plate. We don’t want it to remain just a symbol or a holiday custom.
With Good Factory, you can fill that plate. You can help put back together what has been broken in real people’s lives.
By inviting those we support to this table, we do more than simply feed the hungry. We say, “I see you. You matter. I’m glad you’re here.” We bring them back from being invisible into the world of the living.
This year, decide that the empty place at your table will be more than a silent tradition. Let it become an act of the heart.
Join us in helping to put someone’s story back together—before that plate breaks again.
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 […]
10.10.2025
“— I was wounded here, it hurt like hell,” George says, reaching for his thigh. “Roger was hit too. He was lying in a pool of blood. I thought he was dead. When we saw each other in the same ward at the military hospital, we both cried with happiness,” George recalls. “— In war, […]