WAYS TO HELP LEBANON

This list was compiled by Leila Buck and Kate Moore Heaney, from lists shared by May Kassem, Tamara Ramasmy, Noelle Ghoussaini, Noor Theatre, Rita Jabbour, Maya Chahhal, and Rayya Haddad. We've also used lists shared by Lebanese radio producer Tamara Rasamny via NYC radio producer Judith Sloan.

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Overall Disaster relief:

• Center for Arab American Philanthropy's Disaster Relief for Lebanon campaign  

• Beit el Baraka ("House of Blessing", working to help people living below the poverty line for years, recommended by loved ones in the most impacted neighborhoods now)

• Basmeh & Zeitooneh (friends/family have worked with them for years)

• Impact Lebanon (trusted Lebanese expat group distributing resources to multiple orgs)

• SEAL (Social and Economic Action for Lebanon)
   

Medical:

• Lebanese Red Cross

• Donner Sang Compter (connecting people with blood donations)

• Children’s Cancer Center of Lebanon

Food:

• Lebanese Food Bank

• A list of organizations working to feed those most affected, with info/links for each

• Food Blessed (recommended by loved ones in the area most impacted)

• Kheir (“Good” - founded by women, also recommended by loved ones in impacted area)

Housing:

• Offre Joie (Highly recommended secular org working with youth as well for years)

• Rebuild Beirut (Also highly recommended)

• Baytna Baytak (Our House is Your House)

Fighting Poverty and more:

• Bassma (“Smile” - for families struggling with poverty, recommended by loved ones)

• Caritas (recommended by family in impacted areas, doing great work since the 70s)

Resources for Domestic Workers:

• Egna Legna (working in both Lebanon and Ethiopia)

For the Lebanese Theater Community:

• Beirut, No Show Tonight / بيروت، لا عرض الليلة - (USD) - ihjoz

 

Lebanese designers and artists’ work, giving proceeds to many of the orgs above:

• https://www.redbubble.com/people/dear-nostalgia/shop

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Resources for the Trans Community:

• Disaster Relief for Lebanese Trans Community

For youth skaters and their families:

• make life skate life

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Lists of organizations:

• Compilation of organizations by Lebanese organizers

• NY times list of organizations 

Ways to help that don’t require financial donations:

• Fill out this form to receive a list of ways to help (courtesy of Tamara Rasamny). 

• Please please stay up to date on what’s happening in Lebanon and continue to share news of what is happening. The government is illegitimate, incompetent, and doesn’t care about the Lebanese people but they do care about what foreign governments think/do and how they are perceived internationally. 

• Demand an international investigation into the explosion that took place in Beirut. Trump just released a statement urging the Lebanese government to investigate the explosion. NO. The Lebanese government is hiding something and left nuclear-style explosive material in the port of our capital city for SEVEN years. We NEED an international investigation.

  • Sign this petition: https://www.change.org/p/un-security-council-un-security-council-support-to-lebanon

  • Sign this petition: https://www.change.org/p/president-of-the-united-states-freeze-assets-of-lebanese-politicians-outside-lebanon-264270e0-95d5-44aa-949c-624a4d0bded7

  • Sign this petition: https://www.change.org/p/support-people-in-lebanon-after-beirut-explosion

• Jobs For Lebanon: If you or your company are hiring, please consider hiring a Lebanese person. There are many many qualified and skilled workers in Lebanon, but unfortunately the economy cannot meet their needs. Many Lebanese, who are able, are forced to leave the country in search of better opportunities. If you’re posting a job, post to jobsforlebanon.com. 

• Call the Lebanese embassy and demand that they support the Lebanese people and their calls for government resignation (all of them means all of them): (202) 939-6300 - info@lebanonembassyus.org

• Demand your respective governments hold the Lebanese government accountable and not donate any funds to the government (only to verified local NGOs or transparent international humanitarian groups).