Urgent Support for Families from South Lebanon

You Helped Families Find Safety, Warm Meals, and Care

When families from South Lebanon were forced to leave their homes, many arrived with fear, uncertainty, and very few belongings. Schools quickly became temporary shelters, classrooms turned into shared living spaces, and families had to face urgent questions: where to sleep, how to feed their children, and how to access medical care.

Thanks to GlobalGiving donors, AICA was able to cover part of this emergency response and move quickly through its existing community structures, including Alzahraa Medical Center and the House of Wisdom Community Kitchen. The attached GlobalGiving project was created to support families affected by renewed violence through hot meals, medical consultations, hygiene support, medication, and shelter assistance.

During the response, AICA supported families staying in five schools used as emergency shelters, reaching around 500 displaced people with health-related support through Alzahraa Medical Center. AMC already serves as AICA’s primary health care center in Tripoli and provides general and specialist consultations, free medicines, chronic medications, vaccination, and other health services for vulnerable patients. For families living in crowded shelters, this support meant that parents could ask for medical help, children could be checked, and urgent health needs could be addressed with dignity.

Food assistance was equally urgent. Through the House of Wisdom Community Kitchen, AICA provided approximately 150 hot meals and 150 cold meals per day for one month, equal to around 9,000 meals. For displaced families, a meal was not only food; it was comfort after a difficult day, relief for parents, and a small sense of normal life during displacement. AICA’s kitchen has a long history of serving underprivileged families and previously delivered large-scale hot meal support through GlobalGiving-backed assistance.

Your support helped AICA respond where the pressure was highest: shelters, health needs, and daily food insecurity. While GlobalGiving funding covered only part of the overall emergency response, it helped keep assistance moving during a critical time and strengthened AICA’s ability to serve families with speed, accountability, and compassion.

The needs remain high, but because of your generosity, hundreds of people were not left alone in the first and hardest days of displacement. On behalf of AICA and the families we serve, thank you for helping bring warmth, care, and dignity to families affected by the emergency.