Beirut – After the Devastation.
Beirut has fallen off the news agenda, but the life of the city is undergoing repair after the August explosion which killed causing at least 204 deaths, 6,500 injuries, and US$15 billion in property damage, leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless.
Rotary Beirut Cosmopolitan in Lebanon is among several regional clubs supporting the efforts, repairing houses as Winter sets in, providing food parcels and seeking international support and aid for a country already struggling with strife, the effects of poverty and COVID-19.
Through Peace Scholar Amelia Charles, Haworth and Worth Valley Rotary Club has made contact with President Habib Saba from the Rotary Club of Beirut Cosmopolitan to support their ambitious plans to re build Karantina Public Hospital, one of the four local hospitals destroyed in the blast. It is the only state run facility in the capital, and essential to the local communities. The paediatric ward is the immediate focus for a major Global Grant application. The operating theatre needs:
– Operating Table
– Operating Light
– Anaesthesia Machine
– Or Monitor
– Laparoscopy System with Instruments
– Urethroscope rigid and flexible with shockpulse system and probes
– C-Arm-BV-Vectra
144 family water filters and 4 community water filters have just left the Aquabox depot for Beirut. Now they have secure contacts there, Haworth and Worth Valley is exploring how microloans, in particular, could support families in the community to be self-sufficient through agriculture.
If you would like to hear more Habib would be pleased to give a presentation to Clubs and the District. An appeal is also still underway. Please contact Carol Jordan for details.
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