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Anera in 2020: Responding to COVID and the Beirut Explosion

by Anera

October 7, 2020

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2020 brought unimaginable challenges to Palestine and Lebanon. Anera had to pivot its work not once, not twice, but three times. From “normal” political and economic challenges to revolution and economic collapse, then to COVID-19, and, most recently, to the terrible explosion that rocked Beirut.

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