“It is super important for us to empower one another, to make sure other women feel comfortable expressing themselves” Lynn Malas works with NUSANED, a local non-governmental organization, as a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Partnerships officer. She is passionate about her work, as it allows her to be in a space-oriented towards assisting her community, inContinue reading “Lynn Malas, MEAL & Partnerships Officer with NUSANED”
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IWD 2022: Women-led Climate Action for a Sustainable Future in Lebanon
On International Women’s Day, we celebrate women in all their diversity. We celebrate their lives, their experiences, and their accomplishments. This year, we focus on women leading the fight against climate change together with their daily struggles against patriarchy and inequalities. Environmental issues might not be the first thing to come to mind when thinkingContinue reading “IWD 2022: Women-led Climate Action for a Sustainable Future in Lebanon”
Joumana: “Everything I learned I used it for a better management of the cooperative”
Joumana Daoui is above all a positive woman who never gives up. The 52-year-old is now the president of the agricultural cooperative in her village of Kfar Sir in southern Lebanon. “I never thought of opening something for myself, like having my own business for example. Everything I have learned, among other things, thanks toContinue reading “Joumana: “Everything I learned I used it for a better management of the cooperative””
Antoinette Hanna, AFDAL project participant, will never give up
Karm el-Mahr is a village over 1000 meters above sea level in North Lebanon. This is where Antoinette Hanna, has been living for years and fighting with all her strength to provide for her family. Antoinette, who has four daughters, now aged between 31 and 18, is proud of what she has done and itContinue reading “Antoinette Hanna, AFDAL project participant, will never give up”
A Tripoli, les plus démunis affrontent la faim et le froid
Wafaa, 41 ans, est toute pâle mais elle garde le sourire. Cette femme qui élève seule trois enfants âgés de 7, 5 et un an fait ce qu’elle peut. Elle vit dans une chambre sans cuisine dans l’entrée d’un immeuble du quartier al-Zahirié de Tripoli. Hier pour la dixième nuit consécutive, il a fait tropContinue reading “A Tripoli, les plus démunis affrontent la faim et le froid”
In Tripoli, the most vulnerable face hunger and cold
Wafaa, 41, is very pale but she keeps smiling. This woman who is raising three children aged 7, 5 and 1 year old on her own is doing her best. She lives in a room without a kitchen, in the entrance of a building in al-Zahirié neighborhood of Tripoli. Yesterday, for the tenth consecutive night,Continue reading “In Tripoli, the most vulnerable face hunger and cold”
Secoué par une crise sans précédent, le Liban est au bord de la famine
Son pib par habitant s’est contracté de 40% en deux ans, les prix des alimentsse sont envolés de 2067% depuis fin 2018. Selon la Banque mondiale, 78% desLibanais vivent désormais sous le seuil de pauvreté. Si le monde entier a été frappé par l’explosion du port de Beyrouth, le 4 août 2020, la catastrophe aContinue reading “Secoué par une crise sans précédent, le Liban est au bord de la famine”