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

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