{"id":229,"date":"2017-03-30T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themes.webinane.com\/dummy\/lifeline_1\/?p=30"},"modified":"2017-04-21T19:19:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T11:19:19","slug":"islamic-relief-marks-10-years-of-working-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/islamic-relief-marks-10-years-of-working-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic Relief marks 10 years of working in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In one decade we\u2019ve reached 2m people<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Islamic Relief staff and supporters have been celebrating 10 successful years of operating in Lebanon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Parties in Saida, Beirut and Tripoli included a football tournament and a children\u2019s drawing competition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We first started working in Lebanon in 2006, providing those affected by the Lebanon war with food, water and hygiene kits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Over the last decade your support has allowed our team to reach:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">40,361 children with welfare services and 11,087 with education,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">470,266 people with water, sanitation and hygiene programmes,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">492,090 with basic assistance such as winter distributions of blankets and clothes,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">47,954 with health programmes and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">886,667 people with food including our Ramadan and Qurbani distributions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In Lebanon there are currently four million Lebanese people living alongside two million refugees from Syria and Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Community cohesion is at the heart of Islamic Relief\u2019s work here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Country director Abdelmonem Daymi said: \u201cThe greatest challenge we face in our work is the issue of safety and security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cBut over the last 10 years we have been able to reach all regions of Lebanon working across the whole population \u2013 Lebanese, Syrian, Palestinian, many different communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe feel proud to be working so closely with these communities and building capacity with local partners.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Today, 2,700 orphans are sponsored through Islamic Relief\u2019s one-to-one programme in Lebanon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And our other projects in Lebanon include opening a new kidney dialysis unit in a Palestinian refugee camp where patients have been forced to travel 95 miles (120km) twice a week to have this life-saving treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Abdelmonem said: \u201cI\u2019m honoured to have this rich experience and proud to be able to contribute to the support of refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI\u2019m also proud of the work done by Islamic Relief.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cIt\u2019s not easy working in such a context but Islamic Relief\u2019s name is very well known here and people really appreciate the work that is done so we feel very honoured to be serving the community this way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Read more about <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.islamic-relief.org\/category\/where-we-work\/lebanon\/\">our work in Lebanon here<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: Islamic Relief Worldwide<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In one decade we\u2019ve reached 2m people Islamic Relief staff and supporters have been celebrating 10 successful years of operating in Lebanon. Parties in Saida, Beirut and Tripoli included a football tournament and a children\u2019s drawing competition. We first started working in Lebanon in 2006, providing those affected by the Lebanon war with food, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worldwide","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/1308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}