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Since the major escalation of the war on Lebanon on the 17th of September 2024, the Lebanese Red Cross has mobilized all of its volunteers, staff and resources to respond to the mounting and critical needs. With more than 8000 casualties till now and more than a million displaced, the need for rescue, ambulance, blood, relief and health services is dire and increasing rapidly.

  • 43,344

    People Helped

  • 61,589

    # of families receiving direct cash assistance

  • 14,969

    Door to Door Assessment Completed

  • 126,351

    Covid Missions Completed

 

What is happening?

Since the 17th of September, the war in Lebanon has escalated rapidly and the death and destruction has reached all areas of the country. More than 1 million persons have now been displaced throughout Lebanon and are in dire need shelter, relief and health service.

Since the 7th of October 2023, Lebanon has suffered more than 8000 casualties, of which at least 1700 confirmed killed, and this figure has been rising dramatically since the 18th of September.

This is all happening in an already fragile context, with the conflict raging since the 8th of October 2023, the economic crisis, and with Lebanon still being the country with the highest ratio of refugees per capita in the world.

       

How are we responding?

The Lebanese Red Cross (LRC) is on the frontlines of the response, responding to escalating attacks and emergencies. Our volunteers and staff are working tirelessly to provide urgent health and disaster response services across the country.

All donations received are being allocated to the following response objectives:

  • Provide basic assistance to up to 10,000 families based on their needs for at least 3 months. This includes food parcels, hygiene kits, psychosocial support kits and shelters
  • Provide primary healthcare and medicine through 3 mobile medical units and 4 fixed primary health centers in and around the blast area
  • Support with psychosocial services and referrals
  • Provide ambulance services as necessary in the blast area but also across Lebanon, as well as to help respond to the ongoing COVID19 crisis
  • Collect blood units and distribute them to hospitals
  • Restore its contingency stocks, repair its damaged infrastructure, in order to regain its readiness to respond rapidly to any new crisis
LRC will continue assessing the needs throughout the response, monitoring its intervention, and adjusting its response accordingly in order to do the most good for the largest number of persons, and with full transparency towards the public.
Since the start of the COVID19 crisis, LRC has transported more than 3,695 confirmed or suspected cases

How you can help

Lebanon has 4 overlapping crises now: the aftermath of the 4th of August explosion, the COVID19 crisis, the economic crisis and the Syrian refugee crisis. The LRC is impacted by all of these, even though the focus is now on the 4th of August explosion and its repercussions.

LRC will therefore need all of the help that it can get. To ensure that our efforts are optimized and that our response objectives can be achieved, you will find below a list of our main needs. For all items on this list, we can provide detailed lists and specifications. We will regretfully not be able to accept so that we can tailor your contributions to the needs of the beneficiaries and the capacities and missions of LRC.

For your IN-KIND donations

We only need the items listed below and will only accept contributions that are coordinated with LRC in advance via fundraising@redcross.org.lb
  • Food parcels (for families of 5 for 15 days)
  • Hygiene kits (as above)
  • Psychsocial support kits
  • Supplies for blood donations (blood bags and reagents)
  • Chronic disease medicine
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • Crutches, walkers, wheelchairs, water mattresses…
  • Ambulances (only according to LRC standards)
  • Ambulance equipment
  • Mobile Medical Units
  • Pick-up trucks and passenger vans for the transfer of people and goods
  • Power generators and light towers
For all in-kind donations, you should reach out to LRC in advance, and we will share with you the detailed specifications/content and the process through which to make the donation
When we receive unsolicited in-kind donations which we do not need, we will either regrettably not take reception of the goods, or donate them in turn to another NGO which could make good use of them

How your contributions will be used

All listed services that the LRC provides are free of charge, through its network of 8000+ volunteers and members, supported by 400+ staff members:

We are funded by donations received from governments, institutions, organisations, companies, and most importantly individuals like you in Lebanon and throughout the world.
Financial donations that we receive for this crisis will be used as follows:

  • 80% of the donation towards direct aid to the most affected, mainly via direct financial support to up to 10,000 families
  • 20% of the donation will go towards supporting the activities and services listed above (e.g. ambulance services, blood transfusion, food parcels, primary health…), unless otherwise specified
All donations for this crisis response will go into a single Beirut Port Explosion Fund which will be used for crisis response over the next weeks and months, and LRC will provide regular updates and reports on its overall response across all social media platforms.
           

We thank you in advance for supporting
LRC’s crisis response efforts!