Empower Lebanon

Working with Lebanese Food Bank , the Muslim Scouts, and local NGOs Fakker Bi Gheyrak and Ourjouwan Al Ijtimaaya, last week we distributed 22kg food parcels to 350 families in Tripoli, one of Lebanon's poorest cities.

"The rich became poor and those already poor are starving to death"; supporting people of Tripoli Empower Lebanon's March 2022 food distribution in Tripoli, with local NGOs Fakker Bi Gheyrak and Ourjouwan Al Ijtimaaya, and supported by Lebanese Food Bank...

“We have no government, no services, no electricity, no currency, no hope,” says Safa, who did not wish to use her full name. “Who can we even turn to?”

It is a question being faced by many Lebanese: What happens when a state fails, and no one is there to help?

What happens when a state fails? Lebanon’s study in survival. Amid government dysfunction, Lebanon has become unrecognizable to its own people. To provide for their most basic needs, they must rely on each other.

The World Food Programme (WFP) estimated that food prices have gone up by 628 percent in just two years, compounding Lebanon’s economic meltdown, which has plunged three-quarters of its population into poverty and devalued the Lebanese pound by about 90 percent.

‘Unprecedented’ hunger in Lebanon as fuel crisis hikes food costs Families skip meals and forgo staples as Lebanon’s paralysing fuel crisis causes food prices to skyrocket.