Welfare Association is launching a one million US Dollars Appeal to assist in the immediate relief of the population of Nahr Al Bared Refugee Camp, and at a later stage, to address the huge recovery needs of this population, once they are able to return to their homes.
For more than 3 weeks, the 30,000 Palestinian inhabitants of Nahr Al Bared Refugee Camp in the North of Lebanon have been gravely suffering as a result of the heavy fighting between the Lebanese Army and Fath Al Islam military group. The weeks of siege, heavy shelling, and street-to-street fights have forced most residents to flee to other Palestinian refugee camps as well as to surrounding Lebanese towns. Al Baddawi Refugee Camp received until now over 15,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs), doubling its population overnight and straining its scant resources. The refugees remaining in Nahr Al Bared who were not able to flee are gravely suffering. Read More >>
Welfare Association brings fun to the lives of Palestinian children from Nahr el Bared Refugee Camp
12 June 2007
In early June Welfare Association Lebanon brought some much needed fun and laughter to the lives of 22 girls and boys 5-7 years of age who, under intermittent sniper fire, had been forced with their families to flee from homes in Nahr el Bared Palestinian Refugee Camp, North Lebanon due to the recent conflict.
Initially these 22 traumatized children had been temporarily housed in schools in nearby Beddawi Camp, alongside many hundreds of displaced Palestinian families from Nahr el Bared Camp. As the situation deteriorated and thousands more residents of Bared Camp fled to an already ill-equipped Beddawi, they joined close to 200 families who continued south to Bourj el Barajneh Camp Beirut, staying temporarily in already overcrowded living quarters alongside long term residents of Bourj.
result of the heavy fighting between the Lebanese Army and Fath Al Islam military group. The weeks of siege, heavy shelling, and street-to-street fights have forced most residents to flee to other Palestinian refugee camps as well as to surrounding Lebanese towns. Al Baddawi Refugee Camp received until now over 15,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs), doubling its population overnight and straining its scant resources. The refugees remaining in Nahr Al Bared who were not able to
In early June Welfare Association Lebanon brought some much needed fun and laughter to the lives of 22 girls and boys 5-7 years of age who, under intermittent sniper fire, had been forced with their families to flee from homes in Nahr el Bared Palestinian Refugee Camp, North Lebanon due to the recent conflict.