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The Polish Center for International Aid (PCPM) responds to the new challenges facing Lebanon, which is plunged into an economic and social crisis. In addition to the 'Cash for Work' and 'Cash for Rent' programs, the PCPM provides solutions to improve public safety and implements projects to activate agricultural entrepreneurship in the northern part of the country.
The authorities of the capital of Lebanon emphasize the high effectiveness of the help that PCPM brings to the city through the "Cash for Work" program, i.e. commissioning minor infrastructural and cleaning works to the local community. The beneficiaries of the program are also the poorest inhabitants of Beirut – both Lebanese and Syrians – for whom work provided by the PCPM is often the only source of income.
Another crisis hits Lebanon – an energy one. Some Beirut residents only have access to power for 1 hour per day and a lack of bread as a direct outcome of a country-wide shortage of flour. In these circumstances, they desperately need humanitarian aid.
A lunch hall in Ethiopia, therapeutic food for kids in South Sudan, aid for families suffering from the ongoing Lebanese crisis – those are only a few actions that the PCPM Foundation does to help the poorest across Africa. Please help us in this uneven fight on the International Day for Poverty Eradication.
The Polish Center for International Aid (PCPM) has been running a rent subsidy program for the poorest residents of Lebanon for almost 8 years. Since 2020, the "Cash for Rent" program has also been used by Syrians who seek refuge in Lebanon from the war and the humanitarian crisis in their homeland.
In Lebanon, a country in which the PCPM Foundation educate beekeepers. Those trainings could generate a source of income for them. Thanks to MASAR project funded by the EU MADAD Trust fund, PCPM has implemented the courses. Attendants are not only the Lebanese, but also the refugees from Syria, who had been living in the Lebanon for the last decade.
Single mothers, elderly people, people with disabilities and at risk of malnutrition. For them, the PCPM Foundation is starting a food program in Lebanon. Over the next few months, it will be delivering food parcels to the most urgently-needed residents of a state that is on the brink of economic disaster.
Lebanon is enduring a severe and prolonged economic depression. The effects of the economic crisis are being felt acutely by citizens, but also by local governments which are unable to provide their residents with access to basic public services due to the lack of subsidies from the state budget and the drastically falling collection of municipal taxes. Thanks to funding from Polish Aid, the PCPM Foundation continues its development mission in Lebanon.