Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

In August I will be travelling to Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley to visit and help in the Syrian refugee camps. 

I hope you will join me for this special and very needed cause. 

Any contribution is much appreciated and for your information, my employer Qlik, is matching every Euro!

Refugees in Lebanon
No country in the world is hosting more refugees per capita than Lebanon. A country of 4.4 million people is hosting more than one million Syrian refugees. Tensions are high. The cost of living has skyrocketed. The country has been stretched beyond its capacity to cope with so many vulnerable families.

More than 361,000 refugees have sought shelter in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, many of them living in tent settlements on rented farmland. With the crisis in its sixth year, the level of funding available to support Syrian refugees is shrinking. These families need safe and warm places to live, they need health care, education, safe drinking water, sanitation, and food. Most of them are simply trying to survive until there is peace and they can return home.

What MedAir does
Safe Places to Live – Medair provides families with new-arrival shelter kits, repair kits for existing shelters, and specialized shelter interventions for the elderly and disabled. We also work to improve the living conditions and safety of the settlements through site improvements and fire prevention, and we improve living conditions where refugees are renting rooms in substandard or unfinished buildings.

Health Care – Medair provides life-saving health and nutrition services to vulnerable women and children, and improves access to services for gender-based violence. We support and strengthen health clinics and the overall health system, and deliver community health promotion within the refugee settlements, including community midwives caring for pregnant women, new mothers, and their babies.

Mapping – In Lebanon, Medair identifies and maps all of the informal settlements located in Bekaa Valley, and is the lead agency for mapping the rest of the country. This mapping is utilised by the humanitarian community as an essential coordination tool so that everyone knows about areas of unmet urgent needs. This is important so that isolated families are not easily forgotten.

Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene – Medair provides safe drinking water and latrines as well as improving drainage and sanitation in the informal settlements, which means healthier places for families to live.

Why Justgiving
I choose Justgiving as the most favourable way of giving back as much as possible to Medair and the refugees living in Lebanon.

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