Send Aid to Women and Families in Lebanon and Gaza
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Summary
Help MADRE deliver urgently needed humanitarian aid—and hope—after a wrenching summer of warfare in the Middle East, to the women and families who suffer the most when war engulfs their communities.
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How Donors Like You Helped
Thanks to donors like you, a total of $1,207 was raised for this project.
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Received $1,207 from 21 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Entire neighborhoods in Lebanon have been destroyed by bombs that killed more than a thousand people. Tens of thousands are homeless, and women struggle to secure the needs of their families as the main sources of food, water, electricity, and medicine have been disrupted. In Gaza also, women are struggling to meet their families’ most basic needs and to maintain some semblance of normalcy for their children through a months-long Israeli military siege, punctuated by periodic bombings.
Activities
MADRE will work with local women to provide food, shelter, medical care, and trauma counseling; and help amplify their calls for an end to the violence, as the caretakers of communities trapped in horrifying circumstances that they did not create.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $1,207
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding.
Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as
indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the
"Progress Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $1,207. The original project funding goal was $10,000.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
In a moment when war has strengthened the hands of extremists in the region, we are committed to working with local women from groups in Gaza and Lebanon, who are committed to bringing social justice, equality for women, and peaceful coexistence.
Project Message
“We are mobilizing so that women can begin to take control of their situation. It’s a matter of human dignity if all you have is the dress you are wearing when forced from your home.”
- Lina Abou-Habib, Executive Director, CRTD-A
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 12, 2007.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 24, 2006.
Latest Update from the Field
Update on MADREs Work in Lebanon, November 2007
By Vivian Stromberg - Executive Director, November 12, 2007 06:04 PM
Update on MADRE’s Work in Lebanon
November 2007
Support from Global Giving members was instrumental in helping MADRE provide humanitarian aid to women and families affected by violence in Lebanon last year. In the midst of Israel’s attacks in July and August 2006, MADRE quickly linked up with the Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action (CRTDA)a social justice organization committed to equality for womento offer food, shelter, medical care, and trauma counseling to displaced Lebanese women and families (who made up almost one quarter of the civilian population). With this established progressive women’s organization, we worked to ensure that humanitarian relief reached those most in need while simultaneously building CRTDA’s outreach ability.
Health and Sanitation Kits, consisting of basic necessities such as drinking water, diapers, soap, sanitary pads, and other materials not included in relief kits provided by government agencies, were distributed to 1,000 female-headed households over the course of several months. Distribution was carried out by an extensive network of local women’s groups and volunteers in Beirut, Saida, Metn, Jbail, Kesrwan, and Tripoli. Volunteers visited each household prior to distribution in order to identify specific needs, and conducted follow-up visits after women had received their kits.
In addition to delivery of kits, MADRE and CRTDA ensured that women were empowered to meet their own and others’ needs and sustain this initiative. Together, we emphasized women’s active participation and representation on environmental health committees in the internally displaced people (IDP) centers and schools housing refugees to ensure cleanliness of common spaces and appropriate distribution of clean water.
During this time, MADRE also called on governments to protect civilians in the region and helped provide a desperately needed message of hope and solidarity to our sisters in the Middle East. We thank Global Giving members for their support for this important project.
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