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25/11/22

Dana: “Now I am more confident… Now I can breastfeed my twins”

In this collective shelter around 50 families live there from different nationalities: Lebanese, Syrian, and Palestinian. Considering this center had many women and young children, Action Against Hunger and UNICEF decided to provide nutrition support in this collective shelter. The project implemented with support of UNICEF included addressing the nutrition security of vulnerable pregnant and lactating women and caregivers of children under five years of age by providing support on appropriate infant and young child feeding practices, timely detection of acute malnutrition and provision of micronutrient supplements in Beeka and South of Lebanon in south Lebanon.

31/10/22

Cholera re-emerges in Lebanon after three decades

Lebanon declared on the 6th of October a cholera outbreak that is spreading rapidly through the country, a few weeks after the disease was spotted in neighboring Syria. There are now 2,255 suspected and confirmed cholera cases in Lebanon. Eighteen people have died.

19/10/22

Accessing adequate food has become a real challenge in Lebanon

The multiple crises continue hiking food prices, and more families are forced to skip meals since they are unable to afford products that are essential for a healthy diet, causing them, and especially children, to endure malnutrition.

28/09/22

Maa baed (Together) photo exhibition

Emergency shocks faced by Lebanese and Syrian women in Lebanon

19/08/22

It Takes a Village of Women Humanitarians to Support Vulnerable Communities in the Middle East

For the World Humanitarian Day 2022, we want to highlight the work of our female humanitarians who are dedicated to our beneficiaries and supporting affected communities in hard-to-reach areas.

04/08/21

Lebanon crisis: half of the population below the poverty line

One year after the brutal explosion that devastated the port of Beirut, the country is in the midst of a crisis that has increased the need for humanitarian aid in the medium and long term to an alarming degree.