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Relief Centre – Sanayeh

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10,000 refugees from Dahyeh and the South and who are now in 31 schools

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The Relief Centre – Sanayeh is a gathering of a number of groups who were in the field from the beginning of the Israeli attack on Lebanon. The centre is coordinating relief efforts in Beirut and gathering and transmitting information from the field, as well as organizing political activities on the local and international levels to challenge the complicity of the so-called “international community”.


The relief work is focusing on 31 schools in the capital, Beirut. At the last count the schools hold 9164 internally displaced persons who have fled from Southern Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Beirut.


Among this population a large number are children who are less than five years of age according to our surveys there are:


- 386 children less than one year of age
- 426 children between 1 and 2 years
- 300 children between 2 and 5 years


The relief activities being carried out include provision of basic living needs:

- food and water
- child care needs
- sanitary and hygiene products
- medicines
- mattresses and blankets


The supplies for this are collected through local and international support campaigns.


The statistics that we have as of the 7th day of the attacks show the following needs (we anticipate that these quantities might double in the coming days):


- Blankets and mattresses: about 5000
- Baby formula/milk: 124 medium tins/day
- Diapers: 125 medium packs/day
- Women’s sanitary products: 4400 packs/month
- Water: 17647Liters/day
- Food portions: 1 meal/person/day
- Medical care provision in 14 schools in collaboration with the American University of Beirut – Medical Centre / mobile medical units.
- Activities for children – psychology/animation team.


In addition we are distributing donated clothes and toys.


All of our work is carried out by volunteers. The effort was initiated by a coalition of groups which had organized an action in solidarity with the people of the Gaza strip, which provided the first 150 volunteers who make up the core of our efforts. The number of additional volunteers fluctuates from day to day but typical we have about 230 people engaged in relief work.


The vehicles used for our work are those belonging to the volunteers, who are paying for gasoline used. This is not a significant burden presently but we may need to raise money for it in the future.


The activities are organized by our committees/teams:


- Volunteers Team new volunteers are registered and divided into teams to:
      o Provide food and other supplies to schools
      o Field surveys of schools to identify additional needs
 

- Supplies team
      o Track incoming supplies and supply them to distribution groups.
 

- Medical team
      o Survey specific medical needs/supplies
      o Provide medical assistance in association with AUB-MC and in collaboration with the Lebanese Red Cross
      o Distribute medical supplies to schools through a mobile clinic (capacity one visit/school every two days).
 

- Fundraising and finance group
      o Seek resources for additional funding (international and local donors)
      o Management of donations and funds
 

- Coordination and communication team
      o Manage operations room
      o Provide permanent communication channels linking the different teams and the media centre.
 

- Media Centre
      o Provide information to the international activist community
      o Prepare publicity and analytical material to support the “Samidoun” campaign
        (written, audiovisual, and web material)
      o Coordinate with media outlets in Lebanon and internationally
 

- Child intervention team (a group of animators and psychologists)
      o Activities to entertain children
      o Interventions for children in need of specialized psychological care
      o Provide activities for youth and mothers
 

- Information team
      o Receive, exchange, and disseminate information from the our field teams (volunteers, supplies, and fundraising)
      o Compile a statistical data base.


Finally, the Relief Centre - Sanayeh is to the Samidoun Media Center, which transmits information on the relief center to the national and international media.


We have a presence in the following schools:


1. Madame Beayneh School
2. Fakhreddine School
3. Khaliyyeh Saudiyyeh School
4. Zahya Ayyoub School
5. Maari School
6. HIRIJJ Beirut School
7. Rass el Nabeh School 1st for girls
8. Koliyyat fonoon (Lebanese University Faculty of Fine Arts)
9. Mar Sawarios School
10. BBS – Beirut Baptist School
11. Reneh Moawad -Ramlel Zareef School
12. Ibin Roushod School
13. Al Irshad School
14. Amlyeh High School
15. Fakhreddine Nwayri School
16. Amlyet For girls School
17. Basta Fawqa School for Boys
18. Rasselnabeh 2nd moukhtalata School
19. Maari School 2 (Palace)
20. Raml el Zaidanieyeh School
21. Hassan Khaled (hawd el willayah) School
22. Al Mostaqbal Official/ Al Banat 1 (official) School
23. Madina Theatre
24. Sanayie Public Garden
25. Mazraa school
26. Sarolla Building
27. CIS
28. Amn 3am (Old)
29. Bourj el Barrajneh Al-rasmiya for girls
30. Bourj el barrajneh Bunker
31. Al-Rawdah Al-Ahlyeh


The network we have established over the 8 days since the beginning of the Israeli aggression and which has carried out all of this work is still evolving. We think that it is a noteworthy and positive example of cooperation among the people of this country, both Lebanese and Palestinian, from all sects and walks of life, belying the image portrayed by the international media of discord and tension amongst the Lebanese. In the present state of siege, only an effort of this kind can prevent critical damage to the Lebanese social fabric. We do not have the resources we need here, and at the same time we cannot wait for a purely international effort. Only by combining the hard work of volunteers in the field with the assistance of our international allies can we deal with this situation.



Bank Account details
Please find below the bank details to which you may transfer your donations for the relief work:


In all transfers the following applies:
Account with institution: BKAWLBBE (this is the SWIFT code)
Bank of Kuwait and the Arab World s.a.l
Beirut - Lebanon
Beneficiary Name: Green Line Association
Beneficiary Account : 10USD4612006189003


For USD transfers:
The correspondent in USA with their SWIFT BIC codes are:
 

1. Bank of New York
New York USA
Swift code : IRVTUS3N


2. HSBC Bank
New York USA
SWIFT code : MRMDUS33


3. American express Bank Ltd.
New York USA
SWIFT code : AEIBUS33


For EURO transfers:
The correspondents in France and Germany with their swift codes respectively are:
 

1. Société Générale
Paris – France
SWIFT code : SOGEFRPP


2. Dresdner Bank AG
Frankfurt – Germany
SWIFT code : DRESDEFF

 

Please note that we do not deal with IBAN or FEDWIRE codes.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for any further inquiries on the following contact details:
Email: greenline@greenline.org.lb
Tel: + 961 3 674609

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