people’s Aid is launching an appeal for donations for the victims of the explosions in Lebanon, and has provided an initial fund of 100 000 euros. Other NGOS have done the same.
Equipment and medical teams, humanitarian aid, sending military aircraft… The initiatives multiply to support the Lebanese people after the explosions deadly occurred on Tuesday in Beirut. These violent outbreaks from the port of the lebanese capital have been 113 dead, scores of people missing and more than 4,000 wounded, according to the latest balance sheet reported on Wednesday by the minister of Health, Hamad Hassan.
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In France, the Secours populaire has allocated an initial fund of 100 000 euros and is launching a “call for donations and solidarity”. “The lebanese government is broke. The government does not have the means to help the population, so it relies a lot on international aid, of course, to the state, but also of humanitarian organizations, with programs dedicated to the rehabilitation of the houses,” said on franceinfo Ismaïl Hassouneh, national secretary of Secours populaire français.
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The reconstruction will be “very difficult”, said Ishmael Hassouneh, especially because the country is experiencing “a very serious crisis with the Covid-19, and with a devaluation which is approximately 80 % of the local currency is lebanese”. It is therefore of urgency “to find a place for thousands of injured, because the hospitals in Beirut are saturated” after these explosions, ” he recalls.
The NGO Impact Lebanon has launched a prize to try to raise more than five million euros. In less than 24 hours, the bar of three million euros given has almost been reached. This organization has also announced on Instagram that she would indicate on Wednesday, a list of NGOS verified with which it will work.
The charity association Caritas and the local food bank (pages in English) have also launched appeals for donations, while donations are also possible on the site of the Red Cross, which has a local branch in Lebanon, recalls the Voice of The North.
Three planes of humanitarian aid sent by France to Beirut
France is providing assistance and has sent three planes of humanitarian assistance this Wednesday in Beirut, announced the French minister of foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian on Wednesday noon. “Three aircraft depart today for Beirut to Marseille, with teams of medical stakeholders immediately operational, two of Roissy with hardware, 25 tons, security teams of the ministry of the Interior”, he said on LCI. The Elysée palace had initially reported the dispatch of two aircraft from Roissy charles de gaulle, near Paris. These two devices have taken off in the middle of the day for an arrival in the late afternoon.
The sailors firefighters from Marseille have also dispatched emergency supplies and a medical team of nine people (four physicians, three nurses and two marine brigades) for Lebanon, has indicated their communication service. They boarded a private plane made available by the CEO of CMA-CGM, one of the world leaders of maritime transport. The latter, Rodolphe Saadé, is of Lebanese origin.
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