International Migrants Day 2024
As Israeli bombings continue in Lebanon, thousands are displaced as attacks savage people’s homes. Families in Lebanon, especially migrant communities, are facing an unimaginable crisis. But YOU can support...
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Lebanon: The Need is Growing by the Hour
As the conflict in the Middle East escalates, tens of thousands of families are fleeing their homes, desperately seeking safety. Life-saving emergency aid is being provided by Fr. Daniel...
Lebanon Appeal on World Food Day
In the midst of war, thousands are displaced, wounded and hungry. Since 2013, JRS Lebanon has assisted displaced families through home visits, accompaniment, education and the distribution of emergency...
International Day of Families 2023
Back in 1993, the General Assembly decided in a resolution that 15th May of every year should be observed as The International Day of Families. This day provides an opportunity...
Online learning in Lebanon
Malak*, 12 years old, a grade four student at Nicolas Kluiters Centre in Jbeil. This is her first year with JRS. The sudden shift to online learning due to...
Lockdown Response in Lebanon
Refugees from Syria and Palestine in Lebanon were enduring lives of hardship even before the Covid-19 outbreak. Heba Al Basha and the Jesuit Refugee Service have accompanied and supported...
A Holistic Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
For people in many of the countries where we work, the most immediate threat posed by the Covid-19 pandemic was not the risk of infection, but hunger and a...
Updates on JRS Covid-19 Response
People all around the world share our own anxiety and frustrations about the Covid-19 crisis. But in some countries, poverty means choosing between hunger and the risk of being infected...
Winter Blankets for Syrian Refugees
Winter nights are cold and dark, and it’s a relief to come home to a warm house. For refugee children in Lebanon, cold weather makes it even harder...
Syrian Refugees to Lose Homes
Syrian refugees in Lebanon are being required by law to dismantle all hard structures using materials other than timber and plastic sheeting they have constructed in informal camps...
Coping With Refugee Life
Lebanon has hosted about one million Syrian refugees since the start of the war in 2011. The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) runs programmes to help these communities cope with...