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The World Federation send a delegation to Lebanon to visit displaced families from Syria

Updated 27 February 2013

In February 2013, The World Federation sent a delegation to Lebanon to assess the current situation of those families that had been displaced from their homes in Syria.

As the current crisis in Syria continues to escalate, the latest figures provided by the UN in February 2013 are shocking. During the last two years, over 80,000 people have been killed and more than 860,000 individuals have been displaced from their homes. Out of these 860,000 people, 97% are in the neighbouring countries of Iraq, Jordon, Lebanon and Turkey.

During the one week visit, the delegation travelled across Lebanon and visited a number of families to discuss how The World Federation could help.

The World Federation is already supporting a number of families currently in Lebanon who have been displaced as a result of the current situation in Syria through food rations and stipends.

During this visit, discussions were also held with a number of individuals on how The World Federation could help with micro-financing projects to allow them to re-start their own businesses that had been lost when they left Syria and to begin earning independently again.

We have provided below some examples of projects that we would inshAllah like to support and raise funds for:

1. An Afghanistan passport holder with a Lebanese wife and two children are now living in Nabatiyya. He was from the Syeda Zainab area where he was a self-employed electrician. He has found employment as an electrician but the salary is not enough to sustain him. A loan of $10,000 will get him started in his own business;

2. A widow with three sons has requested $2,500 to start a tailoring business in Maroun al ras in south Lebanon. She has experience in dressmaking from Syria;

3. Taxi plate Number for an individual to work as taxi driver in Beirut ($600); and

4. To start up a mobile and I-phone maintenance shop by a Pakistani family ($4,000). The father is 84 yrs old and the elder son has previous experience and was running a similar shop in Syria. The other brother and sister are studying.

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