Joint project with Rotary Club Baabda – Digital boards to a school in Rmeil The Collège Immaculée Conception is situated in Rmeil, Ashrafieh, facing the port of Beirut; after the explosion of the port in August 2020, the school was almost completely destroyed and the renovations took more time than expected. This project was first…
The Rotary Club Beirut Cedars, in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Harrow and the UK based charity ‘Embrace the Middle East’ inaugurated a dental care center for the Howard Karagheusian Commemorative Corporation in Anjar, Lebanon, completing the Rotary Global Grant GG2120321. Initiated in 2018, P. Hagop Dantziguian stressed on making this project a reality…
On 4th August 2020, a massive explosion devastated the Beirut harbor area and severely damaged its health system. Further straining medical facilities that were already wrestling with rising cases of Covid-19. According to the World Health Organization, three of Beirut’s hospitals were largely out of service. Following an assessment of 55 health-care centers in Beirut…
Today the health sector in Lebanon faces a huge threat in a country suffering from a failed state, socio-economic crisis, and a surge in COVID-19 cases, reaching almost 7,000 cases per day. The demand for oxygen concentrator machines has increased significantly. “One oxygen concentrator machine keeps one bed empty in a hospital, allowing it to…
Today around 45% of the Lebanese population lives below the poverty line. The Beirut port blast on 4 August shredded the city and left its fragile population facing civil unrest, an ongoing socio-economic crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic.Since it started in July 2020, the Rotary Club of Beirut Cedars, “The Food Box” project has distributed…
Private schools are closing their academic year with 45% of tuition fees remain unpaid. THE LEBANESE FUTURE GENERATION IS AT RISK. Lebanon is facing a serious problem. The fact that the working middle class can no longer afford schooling education of their children, the loss of 55% of their purchasing power, and with more than 160,000…
On the night of the 4th of August Lebanon witnessed a human tragedy; 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate (equivalent to around 1.2 kilotons of TNT) stored at Beirut’s port blew up causing widespread destruction in the Lebanese capital. At least 171 deaths, 6,000 injuries, US$15 billion in property damage, and left an estimated 300,000 people…
