Beirut Disaster Donation and Support List (Patreon)

Here is a list courtesy of Drew Mikhael of groups to support the people of Beirut. Please share! 

Here is comperhensive list of local NGOs in Lebanon, most of whom are running emergency appeals for Beirut disaster relief. These are all established and reputable, committed to transparency and accountability.. Here is a digital list put together by civil society members in Beirut (includes local and international NGOs), with all the donations pages embedded. That list also includes the international NGOs currently operating in Lebanon if that's preferred. 

**A lot of these local organizations have been hampered by the financial and economic crisis which started in autumn 2019, and have been unable to adequately access their own funds in banks to support their work. It's crucial to generate international donations and bring in so-called "fresh money". Also key, is bypassing any government-linked organizations because the money will not go where it's supposed to.
**To note: most groups are still in the emergency phase, providing immediate assistance and conducting needs assessment for various target areas. The bigger emergency appeal funds will be funneling to the smaller NGOs eventually, so you can either donate there or to the smaller NGOs directly. 
BEIRUT DISASTER RELIEF EMERGENCY APPEALS: 

• Impact Lebanon (an NGO run by Lebanese in London) set up their JustGiving campaign on Tuesday night and incredibly reached their 5m GBP goal this morning but are still accepting donations. They're redistributing their funds to NGOs in Lebanon (the list of which they're continuously updating on their instagram account.)  
• Lebanese Red Cross (doing heroic work in the rubble at the moment, providing disaster relief and essential services):
  • for friends in the UK, the British Red Cross is coordinating closely with the LRC and has set up an emergency appeal for Lebanon. 
• Life lebanon (along with Impact Lebanon, and several other business & alumni organisations) have set up this emergency disaster appeal: https://lifelebanon.org/
  
• Beit al baraka -- in normal times, they provide comprehensive support for low-income families. (rents, utility bills, shelter, food & medical). Right now, they're focused on food distribution, medical coverage, reconstruction efforts for damaged homes. (Donation page here)
• Donner Sang Compter -- usually a blood donation NGO, they're also doing crisis relief right now, with clean-up, reconstruction, medical.
• Offre joie -- providing temporary shelter for those left with uninhabitable homes; rebuilding houses + basic needs.  
• LiveLoveLebanon: Volunteer group mobilizing citizens to help solve environmental and social issues. Live Love Beirut has been providing emergency relief since the financial crisis started and are now leading the massive clean-up and reconstruction efforts in the streets of Beirut (check out their instagram for . Their 2020 relief appeal is here.
• Nusaned: NGO launched in the wake of the economic crisis, helping increasingly impoverished Lebanese since 2019. (Their disaster appeal here, delivering vital sanitary, medical, food aid currently + clean up).
• International Committee of the Red Cross: ICRC's lebanon appeal 

CHILDREN

• Beit Atfal Asummoud: providing access to informal education for children who have are not enrolled in schools.
• Children's Cancer Center: affiliated to St Jude Research Hospital, provides free cancer treatment for children in need. (Donation page here)
• Himaya: helping victims of child abuse (physical, psychological, sexual and neglect), working to prevent violence against children and providing specialized support for victims of abuse.
• Sesobel: providing assistance to children with disabilities. 
• S.O.S. Children's Villages: (under international umbrella NGO SOS CV) provides support to children deprived of parental care or at risk of losing it.
• Atfalouna Lebanon: tackling child hunger. Details on their instagram story but they're currently accepting donations via venmo.  

DISABILITY & MENTAL HEALTH

• arcenciel: primarily focused on working with and supporting people living with disabilities or other physical and psychological difficulties. 
• Embrace Lebanon: The country's first national emotional support and suicide prevention helpline. 

DOM ETHNIC MINORITY GROUP

• Tahaddi: serving the ethnic minority group in Lebanon through various programming

EDUCATION

• Teach for Lebanon: (similar to Teach for America): trains, employs and places recent Lebanese graduates in under-resourced schools to minimize the education gap.
  
• Teach a Child:  non-profit that provides access to education for underprivileged students across Lebanon, by covering all the expenses related to their education. It currently supports 1,333 students with 107 students in universities and 154 students in vocational institutions. 
• American University of Beirut:  One of the best in the region, has been struggling to stay open since the economic crisis.

FAMILY SUPPORT

• Bassma: focused on wide-ranging support for families, including food, clothes, job training, housing needs.
• Sanabel el Nour: One of the largest NGOs in Tripoli and run by women, provides aid to elderly and children in particular. Emergency fund currently raising money to provide food vouchers. 

FOOD AID 

• Lebanese Food Bank
• Ahla Fawda: focused on delivering food parcels
• Food Blessed:  Local hunger-relief initative that works with businesses and civil society to reduce hunger in Lebanon. 
• Matbakh al Balad: Volunteers who came together to feed the protesters during 2019 protests, now providing food boxes and distribution to people in need. 

JOBS

• Jobs for Lebanon: Is an economic initiative which aims to empower the Lebanese diaspora to create jobs for Lebanese in Lebanon. This grew out of the 2019 economic crisis, but they currently have an emergency appeal for food security and reconstruction here.

MEDICAL 

• Amel Association: Focused on medical, psychosocial support, child protection, vocation training, rural development. (GoFundMe emergency appeal here, focused on food & medical)
• Lebanon Needs: focused on providing sustainable healthcare solutions for poor and underserved Lebanese. (healthcare, housing, food). (Donation page)
• St Georges Hospital & University Medical Center: sustained severe damage from the blast, are raising funds to rebuild. 
• Dawrati: Women's run non-profit, focused on ending period poverty by distributing sanitary products to women and girls in need. Their emergency relief appeal is raising funds to provide menstrual products for women and girls in shelters, and by raising donations for medical and reconstruction. 

MIGRANT & DOMESTIC WORKERS

• Egna Legna Besidet: Ethiopia & Lebanon based NGO run by women, providing assistance to migrant domestic workers and victims of gender-based violence and exploitation in Lebanon and Ethiopia. (Their emergency Covid-19 appeal here). 

REFUGEES (*there are more than 1.5million of them living in Lebanon, many of whom were impacted by the blast)

• Basmeh & Zeitouneh (Smile & Olive Foundation, registered U.K. based umbrella org): they usually focus programming on Syrian refugee communities across Lebanon. Have also set up an emergency appeal for disaster relief.