Successful ECHO partnership ensures food and non-food items for Lebanon IDP
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Project Manager Marianne Bitar and WVL staff managing one of ECHO's distributions in Ain El Remaneh ADP
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Some 700 families received distributions of food and non-food items in Ain El Remaneh ADP Beirut, recently as part of an on going collaboration
between the European Commission for Humanitarian Aid (ECHO) and World Vision Lebanon.
Internally displaced families from the south of Lebanon and the Southern Suburbs of Beirut were given priority during the distributions which began on the 4th September. Families returning to neighbourhoods in the Ain El Remaneh area also benefited from the distributions.
'World Vision is doing everything to help us,' shared Hassan Zbib, a 50-year-old displaced father of seven from Chiah area, in south Beirut while picking up his own parcel at the distribution field. 'We never felt abandoned during or after the war, because they were taking good care of us, at all times,' Zbib added.
The organisation of the distribution, and the commitment of the volunteers working with World Vision impressed Claudia Höchst, Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs (HEA) program officer of World Vision Germany on a recent visit to Lebanon.
'A recent field visit by the ECHO Technical Assistant was a good chance to demonstrate our commitment and professionalism to the donor of this project,' said Hochst.
Partnered by World Vision Germany, the project began on August, 1st 2006 and is called 'Food and non-food Emergency Response for Ain el Remaneh Area and its neighborhood.' The last two distributions of this project are expected to take place on October 16 and October 18 and will include food and hygiene items, matresses and blankets for displaced people.
Internally displaced families from the south of Lebanon and the Southern Suburbs of Beirut were given priority during the distributions which began on the 4th September. Families returning to neighbourhoods in the Ain El Remaneh area also benefited from the distributions.
'World Vision is doing everything to help us,' shared Hassan Zbib, a 50-year-old displaced father of seven from Chiah area, in south Beirut while picking up his own parcel at the distribution field. 'We never felt abandoned during or after the war, because they were taking good care of us, at all times,' Zbib added.
The organisation of the distribution, and the commitment of the volunteers working with World Vision impressed Claudia Höchst, Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs (HEA) program officer of World Vision Germany on a recent visit to Lebanon.
'A recent field visit by the ECHO Technical Assistant was a good chance to demonstrate our commitment and professionalism to the donor of this project,' said Hochst.
Partnered by World Vision Germany, the project began on August, 1st 2006 and is called 'Food and non-food Emergency Response for Ain el Remaneh Area and its neighborhood.' The last two distributions of this project are expected to take place on October 16 and October 18 and will include food and hygiene items, matresses and blankets for displaced people.
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