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Consolidated Appeal Lebanon

(Last updated 6 December 2024)

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Lebanon is facing a severe increase in humanitarian need following a surge in violent attacks across the country since mid-September 2024, particularly in southern Lebanon and the surrounding areas of the capital, Beirut. 

According to the Lebanese Health Ministry, airstrikes have killed over 1,000 and have injured 6,000 people. Additionally, 1 million people have been displaced as of the 30th September 2024. Lebanon is already in the grip of a dire economic crisis, and with existing humanitarian need only set to continue to grow in the face of escalating conflict, the people of Lebanon urgently need relief. 

ACFID’s members and local partners are on the ground and responding with life-saving humanitarian assistance, such as food, shelter, infrastructure, and health. Your donation will assist organisations in carrying out this crucial work.  

Please find out more about the valuable efforts of our members and how you can contribute to their responses below. 

We will continue to update this page with additional members appeals as they are launched. 

You can be assured that your support to any member listed below will meet identified needs on the ground. The standards by which ACFID members make appeals for donations are set by ACFID’s Code of Conduct. This includes a responsibility to provide clear information to their donors on the emergency and the work they are doing with affected communities. 

All ACFID member appeals below have been checked and meet Code of Conduct requirements. Find out more about the standards ACFID members adhere to. 

 

ACFID members responding

ActionAid Australia

Over 1 million people have been displaced, with families in Bekaa Valley and South Lebanon forced to flee their homes under bombardment. ActionAid is working with local partners, to ensure the safety of those affected, providing shelter through temporary accommodation in shelters, hotels, or with host families. We are prioritising the protection of vulnerable groups, including women, children, people with disabilities, and the elderly, while ensuring their security and well-being.

https://lebanon.actionaid.org.au/

ADRA Australia

ADRA is delivering food parcels to internally displaced persons (IDPs) and providing e-vouchers for food and other essential needs. ADRA also supplied educational assistance to displaced families at the Adventist Secondary School, such as textbooks and uniforms, as well as food and non-food vouchers.

https://www.adra.org.au/project/disaster-response/

Australian Red Cross

Your donation will help us and Red Cross and Red Crescent partners address immediate and long-term needs from the crisis across the Middle East region, including:
Providing emergency relief such as healthcare, water, sanitation, shelter, and protection services
Deploying specialist humanitarian workers
Monitoring conditions for those who have been taken hostage, arrested, or detained to ensure humane treatment and dignity, where access is granted
Restoring contact between family members separated by the crisis through our Restoring Family Links service and offering support to repatriated community members
Promoting and monitoring the application of international humanitarian law (IHL), which requires all parties to armed conflict to protect civilians and hospitals.

https://www.redcross.org.au/middleeastcrisisappeal/

Australia for UNHCR

Over one million people in Lebanon are now in urgent need of humanitarian assistance as the crisis continues to escalate UNHCR is:
• Ensuring the provision of protection assistance and services, with an emphasis on high-risk cases, including
through case management, Emergency Protection Cash Assistance and access to specialized services
(mental health and psychosocial support, safe shelter, legal and social services) and complementary
community-based support;
• Distributing core relief items and hygiene kits for newly displaced people as the Basic Assistance Sector Lead
in coordination with sector partners, and expanding the provision of multi-purpose cash assistance to affected
vulnerable refugee families;
• Assessing sites and preparing collective shelters to accommodate newly displaced families;
• Working with the Lebanese Public Health Ministry and the World Health Organization to procure trauma kits
and deploy UNHCR-prepositioned medical equipment in the current response;
• Enhancing access to critical health treatments for wounded refugees through an expansion of UNHCR’s
network of hospitals in the South and the Bekaa;
• Providing safe play, psychosocial support, and non-formal education activities in child-friendly spaces within
collective shelters, available school buildings, and other safe spaces.

https://www.unrefugees.org.au/emergency-response/lebanon-emergency-response/ 

Baptist World Aid Australia

Please give today to support our Baptist Partner in Lebanon as they serve their neighbours fleeing conflict. Your donation will mean our Baptist Partner in Lebanon can arrange shelter, and provide mattresses, bedding, blankets, hygiene kits, and food to families arriving with almost nothing.

https://baptistworldaid.org.au/appeals/lebanon-crisis-response/ 

CARE Australia

Our teams are already mobilised in Lebanon to provide relief and aid to displaced populations. We will scale up our response to provide them with basic necessities such as food, water, hygiene and dignity kits.

https://www.care.org.au/appeals/lebanon-emergency/

Caritas Australia

Caritas Australia is supporting its partners in Lebanon to respond to the escalating humanitarian need. We are supporting with access to emergency shelter, emergency cash provisions, food and other essential items, and health and psychosocial support.

https://www.caritas.org.au/donate/emergency-appeals/lebanon/

MAA International

Since the outbreak of violence in September 2024, the impact of Israeli actions has compelled over 100,000 people to flee their homes in southern Lebanon. Families have sought refuge in Tyre and surrounding northern areas, where overcrowded shelters are struggling to accommodate the influx of displaced individuals.

https://maainternational.org.au/our-projects/emergency/lebanon-emergency

Plan International Australia

As a humanitarian organisation that advocates for the rights of children everywhere, we are devastated by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and are deeply disturbed by the escalation of violence in Lebanon. Schools are closing nationwide, affecting 1.5 million children, while displaced families flood cities like Sidon, seeking shelter in schools, many of which lack basic supplies.

Our Plan International office in Lebanon is working with local partners to address Lebanon’s escalating crisis. Their response is focused on offering immediate assistance and longer-term aid to the most vulnerable populations affected by the conflict.   We urgently need support to provide life-saving humanitarian aid to as many people as possible in the region, particularly in Gaza and Lebanon.

https://plan-international.org/emergencies/lebanon-appeal/#:~:text=Since%20October%202023%2C%20Plan%20International,mattresses%20and%20household%20hygiene%20kits. 

Save the Children Australia

Since October 2023, we have supported 60,000 people, including 25,000 children, who have been displaced by the escalation of violence. This includes displaced Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian children and families. We are ready to scale up our response to the escalating crisis, but we need your support.

https://www.savethechildren.org.au/donate/appeals/lebanon-crisis

UNICEF Australia

No place is safe for a child while intense fighting and hostilities continue, but UNICEF, who has been in Lebanon for over seven decades, is on the ground, working with local partners to provide lifesaving support and hope to children in need.  UNICEF continues to support children and their families in Lebanon with safe drinking water, lifesaving nutrition and healthcare, and access to education while working to keep children safe from harm. We will continue to respond to the cross-border conflict as the situation evolves.

https://www.unicef.org.au/lebanon?srsltid=AfmBOorZyGEqaUzFITrgQwr97ZQBxHTzxD9rG5raVljaQ9vfOBAduSyv

Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA

Union Aid Abroad–APHEDA’s partner organisations the MA’AN Development Center and the Palestinian Women’s Humanitarian Organization will continue to provide access to water, food, hygiene kits and humanitarian aid to people in Palestine and Lebanon.

https://palestinian-people-emergency-appeal.raiselysite.com/

Donate Responsibly

Australians understand the impacts of humanitarian crises and are incredibly compassionate and generous. Unfortunately, if we are not smart in how we do that, we can actually cause more problems.

Unrequested goods such as food, clothing and medicines sent to countries experiencing crises consistently end up in landfill. Unrequested goods block valuable space at ports and airports and can prevent vital aid getting through. Cash is fast, flexible, and is used to meet the immediate and changing needs of those affected.

With cash donations goods can be sourced and purchased locally. This supports local businesses, keeps people in jobs, and stimulates the local economy.

If you want your donation to have a long-lasting impact, consider donating cash.

Find out more about how to donate responsibly at:  donateresponsibly.org.

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