Posted By
Najib
Sep 27, 2019 03:57
As soon as rumors spread about the availability of the dollar currency in the banks, everyone started withdrawing his dollars or looking for ways to transfer them abroad. Same when gas station owners declared a strike, everyone rushed to fill up their tanks and form queues at the stations, but these are all diversions from the real problem at hand: The lack of an economic initiative to get us out of this mess. To begin…
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Najib
Sep 25, 2019 04:31
31,800kg of clothes collected, 5570 beneficiaries, 28280 items sold in 65 different markets, and 45 collection bins set up across Lebanon. FabricAID was founded by Omar Itani, in an attempt to efficiently collect, sort and redistribute clothes to disadvantaged communities at microprices . Omar's initiative won him the 2019 Young Champion of the Earth for West Asia as FabricAID reuses and recycles unwanted clothes, and has distributed & sold more than 60,000 items of clothing…
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