No Lebanese Christian Family Should Go Without the Essentials
Lebanon's economic collapse has pushed families who were once middle class into daily deprivation. Our program ensures they receive dignified, consistent support for what they need most, every month.
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Why This Program Exists
Since Lebanon's economic collapse in 2019, the average family has lost over 80% of their purchasing power. The Lebanese pound, once pegged to the dollar, has lost more than 90% of its value. What cost $10 in 2019 now costs the equivalent of $100 in local wages.
For Lebanon's Christian communities, many of whom are elderly, widowed, or on fixed incomes, this has been catastrophic. Our field teams have documented families skipping meals, going without heating through the winter, and leaving prescriptions unfilled because there is simply nothing left at the end of the month.
Our Basic Needs Program meets families where the pressure is greatest. Food is the largest share of it, staples like rice, oil, lentils, canned goods and seasonal produce, but the same program also covers fuel for heating, essential medicine, hygiene items, and other household necessities. We source locally wherever possible to support Lebanese suppliers, and every delivery is tracked and signed for.
Our Approach
How Your Donation Is Used
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Partner churches and community leaders identify the most vulnerable families in their communities through a vetting process.
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Our Lebanon field coordinator verifies each family's situation with a home visit before they are enrolled in the program.
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Monthly support is assembled around what that household actually needs, and delivered either to the family home or through a community distribution point.
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Families are reassessed every quarter to ensure aid is reaching those who still need it most, and to identify any new families in crisis.
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All distributions are documented with photos and signed receipts, which are shared with donors in our quarterly impact report.
Your Impact
What Your Gift Can Do
Can help cover a meaningful share of a family's essentials for the month.
Can provide steady monthly support to a household with nothing left over.
Can carry more than one family through the month, whatever their greatest need.
Can sustain a small cluster of households in a single village, month after month.
“Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?”