President Message

Dear friends, partners, colleagues,

We would like to wish you all, a new year of Safety ,Good Health, Security ,Success, with more Humanity, Peace and Social Justice.

The year 2020 was the most difficult year in the history of Lebanon at all levels. The political and socio-economic crisis became worse than last year, with still around 1,500,000 Syrian refugees in all Lebanese territories, and 500,000 Palestinian refugees. Increase of the poverty, the misery, no electricity, no water, unemployment, children in the streets, violence, delinquency, drugs, prostitution, and exploitation of children and women. The spread of the Corona Virus had made the situation worse and dangerous. The closure of the Country and the confinement affected all the people, especially the poor families who could not anymore ensure their basic needs .The Port Beirut Blast 4th October 2020, wiped out what was left in Beirut and in Lebanon. Absence of Government, public and private structures, health sector, all collapses.

Our responsibilities increased towards the weakened, vulnerable children, women and families living under the poverty line. We supported together, without any discrimination, hundreds of families affected by the Beirut Blast, vulnerable children, at risk of all sorts of violence and children victims of violence, and young girls and women victims of sexual exploitation, and women in conflict with the law.  We faced very difficult challenges.

Together, we could repair wooden damaged homes, ensured electrical appliances destroyed by the port explosion, medications, operations for children injured from the explosion, food baskets, milk, hygiene kits, masks, sterilizers, blankets, stationaries for children. We ensured psychosocial support to traumatized children living in the affected areas by the explosion, and we ensured support to the families.

Without your generous donations and your support, for sure, we would not have been able to help all these desperate families who live in distress under the poverty line. We are proud of Dar Al Amal multidisciplinary team who faced the challenges and the difficulties, risking their health with the possibility of contracting the corona virus. The team working in the centers and those who work in the field are all committed for the protection of Children and Women Rights. Core values are the respect and the acceptance of each other’s, and to live with dignity. We work for the prevention and protection and resilience, and for gender equality, social rehabilitation and reintegration and personal and community development. The coordination continued and increased with the partners, in the public and private sectors, at the international and the national levels, and with all our supporters.

We would like to thank all our partners and supporters. Together, we will continue to help and protect the greatest number possible of vulnerable and survivors children, youth, women and families in need, and to ensure their rights for a better quality of life, and to advocate for their causes.

Hope, good will and good action will always remain.

Sincerely yours,

Habib Hatem

President of Dar Al Amal