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Amel Emergency Appeal for Lebanon: Urgent Humanitarian Response Needed Amid Massive Displacement and Rapid Escalation

Amel Association International, its President-Founder, Dr. Kamel Mohanna, along with its 1500 dedicated volunteers and workers, extends an appeal to all partners and friends to respond to the current emergency in Lebanon. The association shares an updated solidarity appeal with Lebanon, emphasizes Amel unity with Lebanon

Amel Association

founded in 1979

Situation Update and Humanitarian Needs Assessment

Escalating hostilities across Lebanon are triggering mass displacement, civilian casualties, and urgent humanitarian needs, as thousands of families flee airstrikes and seek safety in overcrowded shelters nationwide.

With more than four decades of experience providing neutral, impartial, and community based assistance in times of crisis, Amel Association International stands as a frontline humanitarian organization in Lebanon. Through its extensive nationwide presence, particularly in South Lebanon and Beirut, Amel has built strong relationships with local communities and institutions. This longstanding engagement enables the organization to respond rapidly during emergencies, ensuring trusted community access and the swift deployment of coordinated humanitarian assistance to those most in need.

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Amel’s Experience in Crisis Response

Amel Association International, a Lebanese non sectarian and independent NGO founded in 1979, has been working for more than 45 years across the most vulnerable regions of Lebanon. Through a nationwide network of 40 centers, 10 mobile medical units, 2 mobile education units, and 2 mobile protection units, Amel delivers accessible and quality services in health care, protection, livelihoods, food security, education, and the promotion of human rights. Over the past four decades, Amel has consistently mobilized large scale emergency responses during major crises affecting Lebanon, including the 2006 Israeli war, when it provided vital assistance to displaced populations in highly volatile contexts. Building on this extensive experience, and in response to the escalating crisis since October 8, 2023, Amel established a dedicated crisis cell to coordinate the association’s humanitarian response both internally and with national and international partners.

Program Pillars

Amel is committed at offering quality support to the most vulnerable through its specialized 17 programs in the: (1) Access to Primary Health Care, (2) Emergency preparedness and Response, (3) Food security and Nutrition, (4) Mental Health, (5) Support to Older People, (6) Livelihood and Income- Generating Activities, (7) Youth leadership, (8) Child Protection, (9) Women Empowerment and Gender Equality, (10) support to Refugees, (11) Support to Migrants Workers, (12) Counter-Trafficking, (13) Youth Empowerment and Leadership, (14) Amel House of Human Rights, (15) Environment and Climate Change and (16) Education, (17) Agricultural Sustainability

Nationwide Reach

Amel is committed at offering quality support to the most vulnerable through its specialized 17 programs in the: (1) Access to Primary Health Care, (2) Emergency preparedness and Response, (3) Food security and Nutrition, (4) Mental Health, (5) Support to Older People, (6) Livelihood and Income- Generating Activities, (7) Youth leadership, (8) Child Protection, (9) Women Empowerment and Gender Equality, (10) support to Refugees, (11) Support to Migrants Workers, (12) Counter-Trafficking, (13) Youth Empowerment and Leadership, (14) Amel House of Human Rights, (15) Environment and Climate Change and (16) Education, (17) Agricultural Sustainability

Current emergency operations

Amel teams, in coordination with the humanitarian community, national and local authorities, have identified pressing needs during the current emergency period. These necessities are particularly critical among children, older persons, and pregnant women. Amel’s emergency response focuses on the health and protection sectors, with support from Amel Primary Health Care Centers (PHCCs), dispensaries, and mobile medical units (MMUs) catering to all vulnerable populations, including displaced individuals.

Mobile Response and Essential Services

Amel’s mobile units, in coordination with relevant local and national stakeholders, are strategically positioned to address the specific needs of individuals affected by the clashes, including those in shelters, through health consultations, vaccination, diagnostic support, distribution of hygiene kits, referrals and mental health and protection support. In parallel, Amel also focuses its efforts on ensuring the continuity of its operations, throughout Lebanon, and enables a dignified access to basic human rights, in the health, education, protection, food security and livelihood sectors, to 40,000 individuals in its centers and mobile units, every month.

Call for Support:

Amel needs financial resources to continue its current emergency response in South Lebanon, and areas of displacement Beirut Mount Lebanon, Bekaa and the North. To complement existing support secured by Amel and ensure the sustainability of the current emergency response, Amel needs at least 350,000 USD/month. Material donations are also needed specifically for medical supplies, protective equipment, and medical equipment.

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