Lebanon needs your support now
Lebanon is facing a dire humanitarian crisis. Your support can help provide emergency support to vulnerable communities.
Caritas Lebanon waving a flag Photo: Caritas Lebanon
The crisis in Lebanon
Over 1 million people
have been displaced from their homes due to hostilities.
Over 2,300 people
have been killed, including children.
Food prices have risen 628%
in just two years due to runaway inflation.
Petrol prices have risen 1000%
making it unaffordable to commute to work or school.
Key Issues
- The ongoing crisis in Gaza has had a ripple effect in the region, with continued armed confrontation on Lebanon's southern border leading to a humanitarian crisis.
- The conflict is now escalating and threatens further destabalisation for a country already in the grip of a dire economic crisis.
- The poverty rate has nearly doubled and The World Food Program (WFP) estimates that food prices in Lebanon have risen by 628% in just two years.
- Hospitals are rationing electricity and relying on patients to bring their own medicines due to a shortage of supplies, equipment and clean water.
Donate to provide vulnerable communities with:
Emergency Shelter
Emergency cash provisions
Food and other essentials
Health and Psychosocial Support
Photo Credit: Caritas Lebanon
Can provide a year’s education for a child living in a Caritas shelter for survivors of trauma
Our response
In partnership with Caritas Lebanon we are supporting
37 centres providing rent and cash assistance for bills and school fees reporting up to 5,000 new people seeking assistance each week.
10 primary healthcare centres and 8 mobile clinics providing diagnosis services, treatment, mental health services and distributing medications.
Secondary healthcare support across over 80 hospitals covering part or all of hospital fees for vulnerable people.
Shelters for women seeking protection and escaping gender-based violence, providing shelter, food, medical, legal and psychosocial support as well as life skills and livelihood training.
Mobile clinics focussed on supporting people living with a disability and the elderly.
Emergency shelter for vulnerable communities displaced by the conflict.
Access to food and essential items for displaced families.
Access to health and psychosocial support for those affected by conflict.
Our long-term work in Lebanon
Our partners have been on the ground bringing humanitarian support to the population of Lebanon for many years, and have the infrastructure, expertise, and logistical knowledge of local contexts and conditions to ensure aid gets to where it is needed most.
Social Justice for Lebanon
While Caritas Australia’s work is inspired by Catholic Social Teaching (CST), we respond wherever we are needed and support the most vulnerable, regardless of belief, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation. Â
We believe that CST is universal. In short, our approach to humanitarian aid for Lebanon is founded onÂ
- The dignity of the human person
- The common good
- Subsidiarity and participation
- Solidarity
- Preferential option for the poor
- Economic justice
- Care for our common home
- Promotion of peaceÂ
The time to act is now.
Donate Now"The needs are huge and they are not being met."
Update from Father Michel Abboud, President of Caritas Lebanon
Update from Caritas Lebanon
Our partners at Caritas Lebanon have been working tirelessly to support vulnerable communities facing a dire humanitarian crisis.
The Caritas Lebanon team gathered together. Photo: Caritas Lebanon
Where does my donation go?
The funds you donate to this appeal go to Caritas Australia’s Emergency Response Fund and will be used to provide humanitarian assistance to communities affected by this crisis. Should circumstances prevent us from delivering aid to this emergency, or if excess funds remain after the crisis, donations will be directed to other emergencies where Caritas has humanitarian operations.
