Picture via I am Not a Tourist
I passed by Biel yesterday to donate 6 bags of clothes collected from friends and family to the Syrian Refugees in the North and Bekaa Area and it was just heartwarming to see hundreds of people coming to give away clothes, blankets and anything that could help these refugees. The best part was that this was an initiative started by individuals and not political parties and it quickly went viral and got people interested in helping.
The organizers will be today in the North and Bekaa areas to distribute the warm blankets and clothes. I truly hope this will be one of many initiatives to help the Syrian refugees in Lebanon and specially the children who are the most vulnerable during winter time.
The Bekaa today – Picture via Gino
On a last note, some people have been saying that we should be helping out deprived Lebanese families before thinking of helping the Syrian Refugees. I honestly don’t know if I should bother answer these people, but let me just say that I personally help out people who are in need regardless of their nationality and the humanitarian crisis that Syria is going through these days requires all of us to step in and help at least those in Lebanon.
Let’s stop being racist and selective as we’re talking about human beings here and if we don’t help out the 1 million+ Syrian Refugees in Lebanon, we’re basically screwing ourselves as Lebanese first and foremost.
I don’t understand how the Lebanese if they don’t help out the Syrian refugees would be in any way screwing themselves over. The Lebanese where so kind to the few hundred thousand Palestinians refugees and now look how wonderful that worked out for the Lebanese. Send the 1mill+ Syrians to their arab brothers, anywhere but Lebanon. Let them feel comfortable and they will never leave. This isn’t about racism or anything close to that. This is survival, Lebanon can’t sustain itself in the current way that it is. What about the Lebanese who already work for close to nothing are being undercut by Syrians trying to feed their families? These refugees will be the cause of great humanitarian tragedy so all the Lebanese should pull together in these tough times and form a big boot and kick them out all together.
For some reason some of us think that they’re better than Syrian, I can’t believe people can see others in need and still be racist, last week i was unblocking my mobile at one of the mobile providers in Lebanon, the person who’s supposed to help me was very rude and mean, until he asked me for my passport/ID. When he saw my Lebanese ID, he said ” YOU SCARED ME, I THOUGHT YOU’RE SYRIAN”.
Let’s assume a Syrian wants to unblock his mobile, What’s scary about that?
why doesn’t usa, saudi, qatar & turkey help them,,,, they are behing the syrian misery & not to mention assoudi…
I agree with K and Paul !!
send some more than 1 million refugees(as if we dont have any) to the most fucked up country in the region financial security and social wise and consume our economy, and ask us to help them, if we dont were racists, while other countries DONT help them by welcoming them in their countries and they r not even close to being racists yeah right!