I’ve been supportive of every initiative to help rebuild Al Sa’eh library in Tripoli, and I loved the book drive that was kicked off on January 8th and will last till the end of the month, but I was surprised to read about a campaign to collect $35,000 for the library to buy new bookshelves, a new front door and paint the wall .
Don’t get me wrong as I am not doubting the campaign but I thought one of Tripoli’s MPs or politicians would happily fund the project to restore the library as it was. I mean $35,000 is a ridiculous amount for billionaires like Mikati and Safadi, who happen to be from Tripoli.
We shouldn’t have to start crowd-funding campaigns for Al Sa’eh library. Since all parties condemned the incident and showed their support to Father Sarrouj, let them allocate a decent amount of money to repair the library and bring it back to life! Most MPs probably spend 35k on fuel for their convoys so it wouldn’t hurt their pockets if they donated money to rebuild Lebanon’s second biggest library.
Unfreakin-believable!
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I’m one of the persons who started the initiative to restore and rebuild the Library and I’m from the chore team that is leading the non stop work that will take at least a couple of month to be done.
I can assure you that Father Sarrouj (The owner of the library Al Sa2e7) have received huge amounts from politicians as contribution but he rejected them because they’ll use this donation for political purposes and he’s happy with the civilians help for it goes from the heart.