Save the Children is working to address the immediate and urgent needs of displaced persons in Lebanon.

Westport, Conn. (July 28, 2006) — Save the Children USA  and its affiliated agencies worldwide are responding to the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon by supporting 11 local Lebanese partners in southern Lebanon and Beirut to address immediate and urgent needs of displaced persons.  Save the Children and partners are focusing on the needs of children and families in 52 centers where displaced persons have gathered throughout the south (Saida and Jezzine) and Beirut.  Specific activities to date include:

• Providing 36 centers in Saida with supplemental foods, medicines, hygiene kits, sleeping materials, milk for children, and baby diapers;
• Providing 11 centers in Jezzine with supplemental foods, medicines, cleaning materials, milk for children, first aid kits and educational and play materials for children;
• Providing emergency food boxes to 50 families blockaded in Tyre;
• Setting up safe play areas to help children return to some sense of normalcy and routine in Beirut and in the south;

Save the Children, with over 50 years of experience operating in Lebanon, has a team of Lebanese and international emergency management experts on the ground now in Lebanon doing an assessment of other immediate and medium-term needs.

Learn more about our response to the Middle East Crisis