{"id":11184,"date":"2020-09-30T12:01:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T16:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/?p=11184"},"modified":"2020-12-09T17:51:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T22:51:28","slug":"lebanon-in-crisis-giving-food-and-much-more-in-beirut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/lebanon-in-crisis-giving-food-and-much-more-in-beirut\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon in Crisis: Giving Food, and Much More, in Beirut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>A longtime member of CNEWA-Pontifical Mission\u2019s Beirut team, Norma Rizk is a social worker who also manages the office\u2019s longstanding microcredit program.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saint Mother Teresa said, \u201cIf you can\u2019t feed a hundred people, feed only one.\u201d In other words, in any social intervention neither the number nor the quantity but the will and the action matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 16 September, CNEWA-Pontifical Mission distributed food packages at the Syriac Catholic Center located in Sed el Baouchrieh, an overcrowded neighborhood on the outskirts of Beirut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Syriac Catholic Father Rony Salim, assisted by four young men from his parish, took charge in distributing the food parcels addressed mainly to 214 of the neediest families, all Iraqis seeking refuge in Lebanon. The parish priest was familiar with the conditions of each family thanks to a monthly program of assistance to these same families. This program was launched last Christmas, following the financial crisis that rocked the country and continues to this day. This aid covers the medical and food needs of families and is sometimes allocated in the form of cash equivalents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe monthly aid granted by the Syriac Catholic Center is a means of raising awareness of the various families\u2019 challenges and therefore a way to find suitable solutions,\u201d he said of the program that was an initiative of Beirut\u2019s Syriac Catholic community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The distribution of the parcels, which was made possible in part thanks to a gift from Aid to the Church in Need, was orderly with proper protocols in place to limit the spread of COVID-19, such as social distancing and mask-wearing, as receipt documents were signed and retained. However, one young woman, all dressed in black, was approached by Father Rony, who asked her for news concerning her husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A spontaneous exchange between Khouloud and me revealed her unenviable situation. She had to flee Iraq in 2014 with her two little daughters, now ages 8 and 9, and her husband, who had lost a leg during an attack in Baghdad earlier. The family had taken up residence in a janitor\u2019s room in Antelias, a neighborhood near our office, receiving a salary of 400, 000 LBP per month (about $265 US) in exchange for housework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During her previous visit to the parish, Khouloud was poorly dressed, her clothes, according to Father Rony, were shabby, not even having the means to buy black clothes to mourn her father, who had recently died. Seeing such need, Father Rony personally provided her with the means to purchase some new clothes for her and her daughters. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giving of one\u2019s self is the greatest form of giving we can offer, and Father Rony\u2019s work provided a wonderful example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A longtime member of CNEWA-Pontifical Mission\u2019s Beirut team, Norma Rizk is a social worker who also manages the office\u2019s longstanding microcredit program.&nbsp; Saint Mother Teresa said, \u201cIf you can\u2019t feed a hundred people, feed only one.\u201d In other words, in any social intervention neither the number nor the quantity but the will and the action &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/lebanon-in-crisis-giving-food-and-much-more-in-beirut\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":11190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2315,68],"class_list":["post-11184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lebanon","category-stores-from-the-field"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lebanon in Crisis: Giving Food, and Much More, in Beirut | CNEWA Canada<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/lebanon-in-crisis-giving-food-and-much-more-in-beirut\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lebanon in Crisis: Giving Food, and Much More, in Beirut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A longtime member of CNEWA-Pontifical Mission\u2019s Beirut team, Norma Rizk is a social worker who also manages the office\u2019s longstanding microcredit program.&nbsp; 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