Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Decision 1701 of the Security Council: Cessation of hostilities

Blow of hope… Lebanese from all communities, hurry to go back and check on their parents, their localities, their houses….
Are we really going towards a durable cease-fire?
On the ground, people have feelings of uncertainty and ambiguity.
The two protagonists are still raising conditions…. proclaiming the right to renew the combat.
The million displaced people statistically announced need help more than ever.
The return to their localities of origin seems impossible for this year: smashed roads, destroyed infrastructure, no more water, no more electricity, and in most cases destroyed houses and destroyed schools.
Facing this disaster, ILDES is currently taking care of the fragile fringes of the displaced population: chronic patients, children and pupils

Healthcare for chronic patients:

These displaced persons are patients who follow essential medical treatments. The interruption of a treatment can be fatal for them. ILDES wants to provide them the necessary medication and medical assistance (doctors and nurses) wherever they are.

Education for children and teenagers:

Soon the school year will start. Would the war have ended? Whatever the answer is, children from 3 to 18 years, supposed to go in class as of September, will be blocked in the areas that accommodate them. Those children must be able to go to school. An interruption of their schooling can only lead them to immigration or worse, to delinquency.
For this reason ILDES wants to provide these children books and educational games including musical equipment. In the long run ILDES wants to finance their schoolings and to meet their educational needs.

For the moment, ILDES launches the campaign:

1 Child 1 Book

Be numerous to answer it:
- by sending a book or a comic strip. In this case, contact us to the following numbers: 04 -710535/6
- by sending your contribution to the following banking account number:
I.L.D.E.S. (Aides d'urgences)
Account N° in $ 1-00137642
Account N° in € 1-00137643
Banque Libanaise pour le Commerce (BLC)
Jal El Dib Branch - Lebanon
SWIFT CODE: LICOLBBX

Monday, August 14, 2006

ILDES: Medical care center for the displaced persons.

In pursing its mission in helping the persons displaced by the wars that devasted Lebanon, ILDES has created a medical care center which essential goals are a sanitary prevention and a medical assistance for persons in need.

Over the last 20 years, our medical center has always offered its services and responded to all requests.
With the present war and the consequent humanitarian crisis, our center is receiving a huge number of displaced persons who took refuge in the region of Hadath. Requests for help are more then 5 fold now, and our center can't manage with its stock to satisfy the urgent need for medicines it faces. Similarly, the lack of milk for infants is quite worrying.
Our physicians provide the displaced persons with auscultation and first care, but providing them with medicines became very hard to us. Unfortunately, if medicines are being provided through donations, they are not evenly allocated and hardly obtained.
Thanks for your help, displaced persons will be treated in a better way, and the health crisis can be contained.
We count on you, displaced persons count on you.

Thank you for responding to our call.

Address:
Medical care Center
Mar Geryess El Khraybé
Hadath BEYROUTH
Tel 00 961 4 710535

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Disaster-stricken Lebanon

This is an emergency call

To this day, there are nearly one million displaced persons in Lebanon.
Half a million are taken care of in collective centers and public spaces.
Almost as many are welcomed within individual homes…
This is a crucial situation, a humanitarian and health crisis…

About us:

In 1986, ILDES (Lebanese Institute for Economic and Social Development) is born out of an urgent need for the help of thousands of Lebanese displaced persons and refugees as a consequence of the wars that devastated Lebanon from 1975 till 1990.
Non Profit and Non Governmental Organization, ILDES has worked during and after the war for the Lebanese persons displaced from their original localities.

Among our most important goals:
- To allow the displaced persons to carry on living a dignified and fair life.
- To fight against the spreading of poverty.
- To promote an intercommunity dialogue.
- To help for return, reconstruction, and development.

Today the situation is repeating itself,
harder than before.
More than ever, and strong with experience, ILDES is seeking to rescue the displaced persons.

On the short run, ILDES provides emergency help (food, hygiene needs, medicines, household equipments, toys, books…)
On the medium run, ILDES is establishing lasting help in its working plan (schooling, sponsorship, reconstruction).

Your help and generosity are precious in cash or in kind.

For your donation in cash:
I.L.D.E.S. (Aides d'urgences)
account N" in $ 1-00137642
account N" in € 1-00137643
Banque Libanaise pour le Commerce (BLC)
Jal El Dib Branch - Lebanon
SWIFT CODE: LICOLBBX

Domiciliation PARIS PL MAUBERT (00187)
RIB : 30004 00187 00010039291 10
IBAN : FR76 3000 4001 8700 0100 3929 110
BIC : BNPAFRPPPRG

Holder of the account:
Developpement et Civilisations
LEBRET IRFED

For your donation in kind:
Tel: 00 961 3 729494
e-mail: ildes@sodetel.net.lb
website: www.ildeslebanon.org