Social Aid

Social Aid

Since its inception, Nawraj is committed to support communities across the country. Social aid includes food parcels, medicines, healthcare items, gloves, masks, dispensary material, personal and home care products, tuitions, stationery, fuel oil, infant milk, seeds, plants, blankets, clothes, diapers, etc.
Target beneficiaries:
Villages, municipalities, schools, students, public institutions, orphanages, social institutions, dispensaries, primary care centers, …

Emergency Relief

South Lebanon - October 2024
On October 8, 2023, Nawraj launched a relief campaign to assist communities in South Lebanon. The organization provided essential items including food parcels, diesel, diapers, infant formula, personal care and hygiene products, home medical supplies, and medicine to the frontline villages.

Throughout the ongoing conflict, Nawraj is focusing its efforts on two parallel fronts:

1. Ensuring the delivery of essential supplies to border populations and displaced families.
2. Protecting their fundamental rights to education, healthcare, housing, and income-generating opportunities.

Nawraj is committed to providing relief to populations affected by the war along the southern border, as well as to displaced families in need.

Nawraj organized a press conference on May 21st in collaboration with the Catholic Information Center and 13 southern border municipalities. The aim was to raise awareness among officials and citizens about the destruction caused by the war and the marginalization of these areas in terms of emergency assistance. A joint statement, drafted by the 13 participating frontline villages, appealed to state institutions to address their legitimate demands for urgent assistance, support, and compensation plans.

Covid-19 pandemic and the Beirut port explosion (2020)
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Lebanon was hit by a massive blast, which caused the biggest non-nuclear explosion in the capital city of Beirut. The blast resulted in the deaths of over 230 people, injured 7,000, destroyed 77,000 homes, and left 300,000 homeless. In response, Nawraj utilized its wide network across the country to provide emergency assistance to schools, hospitals, dispensaries, and homes. The aid included hundreds of food rations, more than 2 million masks and gloves, medicine, and other necessary supplies.
This emergency aid was possible thanks to donations made by private citizens, members of the Lebanese diaspora, the German Evangelical Church, and the Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France) and with the instrumental support of CMA-CGM Foundation.

Rebuilding the Ashes
In the aftermath of the blast, Nawraj immediately sprang into action to provide relief efforts. The team worked tirelessly to renovate hospitals, distribute essential medicines and food rations, rehabilitate 61 homes before the rainy season, and assist schools in resuming their educational programs as quickly as possible.
The Rosary Hospital in Gemmayzé was severely damaged. Nawraj supported the renovation of the hospital to quickly reactivate its departments, starting with emergency services, particularly during the Covid pandemic.