Highlights
- Partners roll out new e-card for 210,000 vulnerable households to access a wide range of assistance.
- Lebanon is among 150 countries around the world celebrating World Food Day 2016.
- RC/HC visits projects in Akkar, the poorest governorate in Lebanon.
- LHF partners are currently implementing 50 projects totaling US$25.9 million.
This month in Lebanon
This month, as World Food Day 2016 was celebrated in Lebanon and around the world, aid partners introduced a pioneering new common card that will enable 210,000 highly vulnerable families across Lebanon to access a wide range of assistance, from food aid to education support. As winter approaches, UN agencies and their partners are also preparing to bring winterization assistance to 265,000 vulnerable households across Lebanon, up from 250,000 households which received winter aid in 2015-2016. Read Fawaz’s story page 5 to see why this assistance is so essential for families living in tents, collective shelters and substandard buildings. Also this in this issue, we report on the RC/HC’s visit to Akkar, the poorest governorate in Lebanon, to look at the response and the challenges in an region hit by high unemployment and extensive challenges for both vulnerable Lebanese and Syrian refugees. On the funding side, our overview of the achievements of the Lebanon Humanitarian Fund shows that 40 partners, including 26 new ones, are currently working on 50 projects totaling US$25.9 million.