Tag: Lebanon

Boy in Beirut, looks to camera in JRS Lebanon migrant centre.

18 March 2025

Food Appeal: Hunger Crisis in Lebanon and Syria
The dismantling of USAID has caused shockwaves among humanitarian and development organisations who face huge layoffs and funding freezes placing life-saving projects in jeopardy. So many aid workers find...

04 March 2025

Food Appeal Lebanon
Families in Lebanon are facing unimaginable hardship. In Lebanon, over 1 million people are now homeless as Israeli bombs continue to shake towns and cities causing mass displacement, fear...

20 February 2025

Social Justice Day 2025: Empowerment in Lebanon
“It’s more than just the food it’s knowing that others care about us and want to help, It makes a huge difference emotionally.”  Ghina, a mother of two from...
Migrant children smile to camera at Arrupe Migrant centre. they are playing with a ball.

18 December 2024

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...
Food aid from a humanitarian truck is being sorted by JRS aid worker.

29 October 2024

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...

16 October 2024

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...
John poses with families in Lebanon

14 May 2023

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...

16 March 2021

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...

29 October 2020

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...

29 October 2020

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...

22 April 2020

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...

26 November 2019

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...