Lebanon
Our work there at a glance:
- Medical care with mobile clinic
- Transportation rides to health facilities
- Assumption of the treatment costs
- Distribution of food parcels
- Operation of an Physiotherapy Practice
Lebanon
Our work there at a glance:
- Medical care with mobile clinic
- Transportation rides to health facilities
- Assumption of the treatment costs
- Distribution of food parcels
- Operation of an Physiotherapy Practice
Our goal
Ensuring medical care for Syrian refugees in the Sidon area.
Latest news
Project reports
Challenges for families with special needs children
Living with a disabled child presents many challenges for families. Families who are also refugees or living as refugees in a foreign country face even greater challenges.
Lebanon Continues to Move to the Edge of the Abyss
For two weeks now, the situation in Lebanon has been worsening again - Cap Anamur is helping, despite catastrophic conditions.
“I consider myself fortunate to have the opportunity to help others”
Mariam Jaafar has been a physiotherapist in the Cap Anamur aid project in Lebanon since mid-2020.
Syrian Refugees Are at Higher Risk of Dying from COVID-19
An estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees live in Lebanon. The vast majority of them in cramped camps where social distancing is impossible.
Cap Anamur Aids the Poorest With Food Parcels
With the growing economic crisis, the effects of the COVID pandemic, and ultimately since the explosion in Beirut, the situation in Lebanon is worsening. Most affected are the poorest of the population and the approximately 1,2 million syrian refugees, which have have to fight for their lives on a daily basis.
Cap Anamur Takes Immediate Action After Explosion in Lebanon
A devastating explosion on Tuesday, August 04, 2020, in the port of Beirut, has so far resulted in 135 deaths and more than 5,000 injured. Cap Anamur project coordinator Volker Rath, leaves immediately for Beirut.
Key health data
Life expectancy
77/74 years
(women/men)
Infant mortality
15
per 1,000 births
Doctors
3,2
per 1,000 inhabitants
Cap Anamur Engagement in the Lebanon
1983 – 19852005 – 20072016 – today
The situation in Lebanon
Political situation
The economic and political situation in Lebanon has been increasingly catastrophic for years. Cap Anamur has been working in Lebanon in the Syrian refugee settlements in the Sidon area since 2016. Inflation is currently rising faster than ever before, and many essential goods are no longer affordable for the majority of the population. With the growing economic crisis, the effects of the COVID pandemic, and ultimately since the explosion in Beirut, the situation in Lebanon is worsening. Most affected are the poorest of the population and the approximately 1,2 million syrian refugees, which have have to fight for their lives on a daily basis.
Social situation.
Many of the Syrian refugees have crossed the border to escape the war in their own country. Here, they usually live in large camps without financial security and in the uncertainty of whether and when they will be able to return home. Many of these settlements are located in the Sidon area south of the capital Beirut. The mediacal treatment there is insufficient. Since the consultation and treatment in health institutions in the region is not free of charge, many people, even with severe medical issues, stay untreated.
In Lebanon provides Cap Anamur free medical care, including a mobile clinic. The distribution of food packages are now also part of our relief work.
Children playing in the “Settlement” of Syrian civil war refugees on the outskirts of Tyre. 32 families live here.
Our engagement in Lebanon
The supply situation for poor people in Lebanon is catastrophic. Since the outbreak of the Corona pandemic, the living situation of Syrian refugees in particular has worsened. The curfews lead to the disappearance of earning opportunities as day labourers. Food has become increasingly unaffordable due to the economic crisis and medicines are in short supply.
Medical care with a mobile clinic.
Medical care with a mobile clinic.
Cap Anamour has been working in Lebanon in the Sidon region since 2016.
- We organize daily transportation from camps in the Sidon area to cooperating health facilities.
- We pay for the cost of examination, treatment and medicine.
Physiotherapy practice
Physiotherapy practice
In our physiotherapy practice in Sidon, Lebanon we treat children with mental or physical disabilities. Two physiotherapists care for up to 20 children daily.
Distribution of food parcels
Distribution of food parcels
We also support some of the poorest families with food packages. Most of the time it is single mothers, widows or orphans that we help. One food package includes oil, sugar, rice, pasta, salt, tomato sauce and burgur and occasionly even some sweets for the children.
Success in numbers
1,500 - 2,000 consultations each month.
We treat 1,500-2,000 patients per month.
Since 2018 physio- and sociotherapie for children.
In our physiotherapy practice, we help refugee children with physical disabilities
Food packages for around 2,000 families
We regularly support refugee families with food parcels.
What happens next
The situation in Lebanon is catastrophic – Cap Anamur will remain.
The already precarious supply situation was further aggravated by additional fuel shortages in the summer of 2021. Power cuts for hours throughout the country were the result, as electricity in Lebanon is supplied by petrol-powered generators. Refrigeration chains failed, tons of much-needed food spoiled. Increasing prices of food but also medicine are the consequence. The operation of hospitals is also dependent on power supply. The financial and economic crisis and the prevailing corruption are well-known factors that have currently led to inflation rising faster than ever before. Many essential goods are no longer affordable for the majority of the population.
- With our mobile clinic, we continue to provide medical care despite the circumstances.
- By distributing food packages, Cap Anamur supports those who are severely affected by poverty.
- And with the project of a physiotherapy practice we can provide help to some children.