Caritas Lebanon

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  www.cafod.org.uk/news_and_events/emergencies/middle_eas - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/8/2008    Last Visited: 11/11/2007  

  CAFOD and its partners are helping communities in Lebanon to rebuild their lives one year after the war by replacing livestock and distributing seeds and fertiliser
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  CAFOD partner Caritas Lebanon provided food and hygiene kits to people in the weeks immediately after the war in Lebanon.
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  Food, schooling and livelihoods are the priorities for Middle East relief workers over the coming months, as thousands try to return to normal lives in Lebanon
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  Traffic chaos as thousands in Lebanon desperately try to return home from the shelters - but aid agencies are concerned about what they will find when they get there
  
  Public water comes only for an hour, every other day, to this school in Beirut. When it arrives, the displaced people crowding this site take the opportunity to wash clothing and fill buckets and cisterns. Potable water, along with food, medicines, and other supplies, are provided by a host of aid agencies working in Beiruit, including Caritas Lebanon, which remains very active amid the ongoing crisis here. [David Synder/ CRS]
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  Displaced women take care to comfort a young child from their temporary home in an underground parking garage in Beirut - the only place they feel safe after fleeing their homes earlier in the fighting. An estimated 535,000 people are now seeking shelter with host families or in public spaces such as this one. Thus far, Caritas Lebanon has reached 85, 531 people with much-needed emergency supplies. [David Synder/ CRS]
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  As the numbers of people in need rise in Lebanon, it is becoming increasingly difficult to provide them with adequate care, CAFOD says
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  Catholic parishes in England and Wales are urged to give us support as our partners in Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank work on the growing humanitarian crisis
  
  A Palestinian child attends a Hamas anti-Israeli protest in Gaza city July 14, 2006. Thousands of Palestinian participated in the protest against Israeli attacks in Gaza and Lebanon [REUTERS/AHMED JADALLAH, courtesy www.alertnet.org]Call for ceasefire in the Middle East
  
  Catholic agency network urges bombing and fighting to stop in Lebanon and Gaza strip, as aid workers try to help the wounded and shelter civilians despite the danger

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  Published on: 9/19/2007    Last Visited: 9/19/2007  

  Mr. Michel Nseir, CEO of SDCG, recognized the efforts of everyone in making this year successful and expressed his firm confidence that 2006 will witness more growth in Lebanon and the region.
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  Operating in both retail and wholesale, the company's current goal is to sprinkle Thierry's Friends magic to the whole of Lebanon and the Middle East.Ten points of sales are already completely operational, nine in Lebanon and one in Dubai.
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  Bonjus was established in 1962 and is considered one of the largest branded soft drinks and ice cream manufacturers in Lebanon.The company currently employs over 400 employees.Bonjus products are not only distributed in Lebanon but are also present on the American, African and Arabian Gulf markets.
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  Caritas Lebanon is a member of Caritas International Confederation.It is one of the largest humanitarian networks.Its mission is to help people in need and restore their dignity, regardless of their political, religious or social beliefs.
  
  Caritas Lebanon has adopted Visual Dolphin to automate the operation of its Lebanese network.The project includes the computerization of the finance, the medicines inventory, the payroll and the automation of the dispensaries.The project ultimate objective is to provide the 36 sectors in Lebanon with a web access to the system.
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  Made in America 2004 is the most prominent trade fair promoting U.S. products and services in Lebanon and is open to any company marketing U.S. products and services.Given the outstanding reputation of U.S. technology, as well as Lebanon's strategic position in the region, Made in America 2004 will be an excellent opportunity for U.S. ICT companies to develop new partnerships in Lebanon and throughout the region.
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  This event is considered Lebanon's showcase of every Information Technology related solution available in Lebanon.
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  Visual Dolphin Advert was deployed by advertising agencies networks with a consolidated turnover that constitutes 60% of the market share in the MENA countries, like Brand Connection, Fortune Promoseven, Grey Worldwide, Horizons, Starcom, TMI/J.Walther Thompson, Universal Media 7 besides several other agencies located in Lebanon, UAE or Saudi Arabia.
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  The Individual Tax Declaration report (R6) recently requested by the Ministry of Finance of Lebanon is now available in the Dolphin Payroll System.
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  Minister Cordahi stressed on the importance of representing Lebanon at all major IT events in the Middle East area and exporting Lebanese know-how outside the frontiers.
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  Termium 2003 is considered the leading IT event in Lebanon.It is organized jointly by Promofair and PCA, the Professional Computer Association.

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  Published on: 12/26/2007    Last Visited: 12/26/2007  

  As aid workers continue to assess damages and needs throughout Lebanon, CRS is expanding its operations in Lebanon with the August 31 opening of a new office in Beirut.
  
  CRS, together with its local partner, Caritas Lebanon, is the largest non-governmental humanitarian aid organization in Lebanon.
  
  "It quickly became obvious that the devastating effects of the war on the whole of Lebanon require more long-term support," says Mark Schnellbaecher, CRS regional director for the Middle East and Europe.
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  When the war in Lebanon started, CRS brought in emergency aid experts from around the globe to help local agencies set up centers for the hundreds of thousands who were fleeing bombed villages.Within days, CRS and its local partner agency Caritas Lebanon served nearly 100,000 people.The worldwide aid agency now has a more permanent operation with a core, international staff in place.
  
  CRS places high value on partnering with local agencies to facilitate its work.In addition to Caritas Lebanon, CRS also coordinates closely with the Development for People and Nature Association and Mouvement Social.
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  Caritas Lebanon and Development for People and Nature Association are distributing a month's supply of food packets for 10,000 families in the Saida (Sidon) area in southern Lebanon and delivering a week's supply of water for about 25,000 people in Marjeyoun along with more than 37,000 hygiene kits.

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  Published on: 7/27/2006    Last Visited: 8/15/2008  

  July 27, 2006, Baltimore, MD—Catholic Relief Services and its local partner, Caritas Lebanon, warn of a major humanitarian crisis in the hardest hit areas of Lebanon if life-saving relief supplies do not reach those in need by the end of this week.The organizations continue to urge the immediate cessation of hostilities, the lifting of the siege on the Lebanese people, and the establishment of a humanitarian corridor that would provide unfettered, safe access for the delivery of vitally needed assistance.
  
  CRS and Caritas Lebanon have nearly 100 staff on the ground in Beirut, as well as 7,000 Lebanese volunteers working throughout the country to provide aid from 36 field offices.
  
  The stocks of basic food and relief items such as medicines are rapidly dwindling.
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  Almost one quarter of Lebanon's four million people are now directly and personally affected by this conflict, either driven from their homes or trapped in them."
  
  The situation is particularly acute in Lebanon's third largest city of Saida (Sidon), where CRS is providing displaced families with food staples, diapers, medicine, as well as cleaning supplies and blankets.Residents and the many internally displaced people who fled from the south are cut off from supplies and escape routes because access roads have been destroyed by Israeli bombing.Approximately 1,117 families have been displaced to public buildings in Saida, joining the already besieged population there, while another 400 families are being hosted in the homes of Saida residents.The internally displaced population in Saida recently jumped from 25,000 to 42,000.
  
  Caritas Lebanon yesterday reported that the number of people it is helping in temporary shelters throughout the country has tripled to 70,000, and the organization signalled that as those numbers continue to rise, it is becoming increasingly difficult to bring adequate care to those in need, as services and infrastructure are under enormous pressure.
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  CRS has already committed $1 million in private emergency funds to this appeal to meet the increasing humanitarian needs arising from the upsurge of violence in Lebanon and the occupied territories.

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  Published on: 11/11/2007    Last Visited: 11/11/2007  

  This photogallery highlights the huge humanitarian crisis triggered by the bombing of Lebanon as thousands were forced to flee their homes to seek safe shelter in the cities or across the border
  
  CAFOD's partner Caritas Lebanon has been at the forefront of the relief effort helping the families flooding into cities such as Beirut and Sidon - often with very few possessions and traumatised by the bombing raids.
  
  Although many have now returned home since the ceasefire was called, the aid work must continue as thousands discover that their homes have been damaged or destroyed.
  
  Food, schooling and livelihoods are now the priorities for Caritas Lebanon over the coming months, trying to restore normality to those affected.
  
  CAFOD will continue to support Caritas Lebanon in this vital work.

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  Published on: 4/16/2007    Last Visited: 5/26/2008  

  CAFOD and its partners are helping communities in Lebanon to rebuild their lives after the war by replacing livestock and distributing seeds and fertiliser
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  CAFOD partner Caritas Lebanon provided food and hygiene kits to people in the weeks immediately after the war in Lebanon.

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  Published on: 7/21/2006    Last Visited: 5/26/2008  

  What are the humanitarian needs in Lebanon?
  
  CAFOD's partner in Lebanon, Caritas Lebanon, has made an urgent appeal for the humanitarian needs of the country.In Lebanon, after weeks of Israeli air strikes and artillery fire, there has been damage to infrastructure, hundreds of casualties and thousands injured in the bombing.
  
  More than 1,000 Lebanese have been killed in the fighting, most of them civilians, and many more have been injured.
  
  More than one million people have been forced out of their homes during the escalation of violence.Some are being put up by friends and relatives, but many are seeking shelter in public places such as schools, parks and churches.
  
  They are predominately from Shia Muslim areas in southern Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Beirut.Shia Muslims are among the poorest people in Lebanon.
  
  They were forced to flee their homes with relatively little.They need blankets, cooking equipment, food, medicine, and hygiene kits.
  
  The blockade of Lebanon and the bombing of roads resulted in a shortage of basic supplies such as fuel, food, and medicine, which can now be only bought locally at very inflated prices, beyond the resources of many of the people made homeless by the fighting.
  
  Electricity supplies have been cut in some areas, and residents must rely on generators and candles.
  
  What are the humanitarian needs in Gaza?
  
  With the focus on Lebanon, it is important not to forget the humanitarian suffering in the Gaza Strip.
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  In Israel, there have been rocket attacks on the border area with Lebanon which have resulted in up to 150 Israelis killed and hundreds injured.
  
  There have also been rocket attacks out of Gaza.
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  What is CAFOD doing in Lebanon?
  
  CAFOD has so far pledged £200,000 to its local partner Caritas Lebanon in Lebanon.Caritas Lebanon is providing emergency assistance to families made homeless by the conflict and who are currently seeking shelter in schools in Beirut and southern Lebanon.
  
  Caritas Lebanon has been providing food, medicine, blankets and cooking equipment to around 80,000 people and has plans to increase its distribution to 120,000 people in 330 places such as schools, convents, churches, mosques or other facilities and with host families.
  
  Field offices in the south have been working in isolation since transport and communications have been almost totally cut off by air attacks and land and sea blockades.
  
  Caritas Lebanon has received one appeal alone from a school in Tyre which has been housing 2,000 families.Caritas aims to provide food, cooking equipment, blankets, bedding, hygiene kits and medicine.
  
  It will also try to provide the schools with candles and arrange access to community generators in areas where electricity has been cut.
  
  Caritas Lebanon is also supporting migrant workers and refugees in Lebanon.
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  Caritas has opened up a shelter for migrants and is in the process of setting up larger premises to meet the growing needs.
  
  To date, the Caritas Migrant Centre has provided more than 4,000 migrants and refugees with shelters, basic needs such as food, blankets and cooking utensils, hygienic supplies, psychological and medical assistance and other relevant needs.
  
  The Lebanese government also requested the centre to help take care of foreign and migrant prisoners.Some 600 prisoners thus far have been released from different prisons in targeted areas and sent to Caritas shelters.
  
  CAFOD has also pledged £50,000 to the Association Najdeh who works with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
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  Caritas Lebanon has mobilised a fleet of mobile health clinics around the country, which are visiting schools and other shelters bringing aid to the most vulnerable: children, the elderly and the sick.
  
  They are also educating people about how to look after their health during this period of crisis.
  
  In Beirut and its various field offices through Lebanon, Caritas Lebanon, are providing emergency food and supplies such as soap, medicine, milk and baby products.
  
  A major concern is that prices are increasing and such supplies could soon become unavailable on the market.
  
  With trucks supplied by the Lebanese Army, Caritas Lebanon is funneling aid to particularly hard-hit areas such as Tyre and Marjeyoun.
  
  Is there a solution to the conflict?
  
  CAFOD is calling for the start of negotiations.CAFOD believes that a just peace is possible in the Middle East, and urges the international community and political leaders to uphold international law and help the people of Israel, of Palestine and of Lebanon to step back from the brink of full-scale war and work together to achieve that just peace.

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  Published on: 1/30/2008    Last Visited: 6/12/2008  

  Father Louis SAMAHA, President of Caritas Lebanon

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  Published on: 8/3/2006    Last Visited: 3/5/2007  

  August 3, 2006, Baltimore, MD - Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and its local partner, Caritas Lebanon, have thus far aided 85,530 displaced people throughout Lebanon.As the violence in Lebanon continues to escalate and the humanitarian situation continues its downward spiral, the work of CRS and Caritas has not slowed down.Once more resources are made available, the organizations estimate they will be able to assist between 130,000 to 140,000 evacuees.
  
  Caritas Lebanon has thirty-six offices spread throughout Lebanon, all of which are being manned by dedicated staff members and a volunteer base of 7,000.
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  There are more than 90,000 documented Sri Lankans working in Lebanon, mostly as domestic help, and at least another 20,000 Ethiopians, 20,000 Filipinos, and many thousands of Indians and Bangladeshis.Since the crisis began, these workers have been left without work and are finding it difficult to leave Lebanon and return to their countries of origin.
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  For more information about Caritas Lebanon, visit http://caritaslebanon.blogspot.com/

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  Published on: 9/19/2007    Last Visited: 12/19/2007  

  Mr. Michel Nseir, CEO of SDCG, recognized the efforts of everyone in making this year successful and expressed his firm confidence that 2006 will witness more growth in Lebanon and the region.
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  Operating in both retail and wholesale, the company's current goal is to sprinkle Thierry's Friends magic to the whole of Lebanon and the Middle East.Ten points of sales are already completely operational, nine in Lebanon and one in Dubai.
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  Bonjus was established in 1962 and is considered one of the largest branded soft drinks and ice cream manufacturers in Lebanon.The company currently employs over 400 employees.Bonjus products are not only distributed in Lebanon but are also present on the American, African and Arabian Gulf markets.
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  Caritas Lebanon is a member of Caritas International Confederation.It is one of the largest humanitarian networks.Its mission is to help people in need and restore their dignity, regardless of their political, religious or social beliefs.
  
  Caritas Lebanon has adopted Visual Dolphin to automate the operation of its Lebanese network.The project includes the computerization of the finance, the medicines inventory, the payroll and the automation of the dispensaries.The project ultimate objective is to provide the 36 sectors in Lebanon with a web access to the system.
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  Made in America 2004 is the most prominent trade fair promoting U.S. products and services in Lebanon and is open to any company marketing U.S. products and services.Given the outstanding reputation of U.S. technology, as well as Lebanon's strategic position in the region, Made in America 2004 will be an excellent opportunity for U.S. ICT companies to develop new partnerships in Lebanon and throughout the region.
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  This event is considered Lebanon's showcase of every Information Technology related solution available in Lebanon.
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  Visual Dolphin Advert was deployed by advertising agencies networks with a consolidated turnover that constitutes 60% of the market share in the MENA countries, like Brand Connection, Fortune Promoseven, Grey Worldwide, Horizons, Starcom, TMI/J.Walther Thompson, Universal Media 7 besides several other agencies located in Lebanon, UAE or Saudi Arabia.
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  The Individual Tax Declaration report (R6) recently requested by the Ministry of Finance of Lebanon is now available in the Dolphin Payroll System.
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  Minister Cordahi's tour covered all the stands located at the Lebanese pavilion and praised the achievements of the IT sector in Lebanon.Minister Cordahi stressed on the importance of representing Lebanon at all major IT events in the Middle East area and exporting Lebanese know-how outside the frontiers.
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  Termium 2003 is considered the leading IT event in Lebanon.It is organized jointly by Promofair and PCA, the Professional Computer Association.

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