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An Update on Anera’s Shelter Project in Beirut
These residents of Beirut are finally safe and secure in their new and improved homes and businesses Two years ago today, a devastating explosion wracked the port in Beirut, Lebanon on August 4, 2020. It was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, damaging or destroying infrastructure across wide swaths of the city, killing…
Beirut Explosion: Responding in the Aftermath
A cataclysmic explosion in Beirut on August 4, 2020 killed well over 200 people and injured another 6,000. It was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history. Emergency rooms are over capacity with badly injured people, and medical supplies are quickly being depleted with no restock available. A large swath of the city has…
After Beirut blast, Anera responds with medical shipments and repairs to damaged housing
Anera has raised $450,000 of an estimated $1.5 million budget for immediate response. August 11, 2020 | Beirut, Lebanon – Anera has 60 staff in Lebanon mobilizing relief efforts and helping to rebuild after explosions at the port of Beirut killed and injured thousands of people, forced more than 300,000 from their homes, and left…