Grassroots Lebanon
Beirut Municipality Qiyadet Foj Al Haras, avenue Charles Helou Beirut , Beirut Lebanon
Grassroots Lebanon Non-Profit Organization (GLNPO) is a network of independent Lebanese individuals who possess a high sense of agency, initiative, solidarity, and belonging. Although operational and active since late 2019, Grassroots Lebanon turned into a popular response to the aftermath of the 4th of August 2020 blast and hundreds of high-spirited Lebanese women and men from all walks of life stood together and helped in evacuating the victims, cleaning debris, preparing and providing food to the devastated people, offering medical and psychological assistance and aid and helping in the reconstruction and all aspects of socio- psychological and medical needs. Grassroots Lebanon’s free and moderate voices aim at spreading the culture of initiative in order to raise a sense of agency and solidarity amongst the Lebanese communities to ensure a sustainable positive impact in the targeted communities while fulfilling the following goals: - reducing poverty, hunger and inequalities while ensuring good health and wellbeing. - offering quality, resilience and vocational education towards decent work and economic growth. - spreading awareness. - offering medical, psychosocial support and legal advisory. - advocating for gender equality, - encouraging clean water and sanitation along with affordable and clean energy. - encouraging responsible consumption, production and sustainable cities and communities through industry, innovation and infrastructure. - raising awareness regarding climate action, life below water and life on land. - advocating for peace, justice and strong institutions - accomplishing partnerships for the goals - advocating for human rights and freedoms and delivering the voice of the Lebanese people to the local and international communities. Grassroots Lebanon is an organic civic movement that believes in positive sustainable change coming from the bottom up, where ordinary people have the stance and can make a great difference! Many projects are being handled by Grassroots members in response to the actual crisis like: - Charitable projects including medical and refraction check ups and medicines and pharmaceutical products distribution (The ongoing White Campaign) to dispensaries and families in need from our data or through collaborations; - Food security programme ( food boxes, hot meals and sandwiches distributions) in partnership with but not limited to ILO, Worldvision, United Sikhs, Rotary; - Hygiene kits, personal and house necessities distributions in partnership with reputable local and international organizations; - Sustainable projects namely resilience education and vocational training programmes in partnership with professionals offering free services to prepare interested beneficiaries and equip them with the needed know-how to potentially find a job; - the Grassroots milk campaign in response to the acute shortage in the infant formula milk supply all across Lebanon; - Instruments occupational Health and Safety (Personal Protective Equipments) - Assessment projects- Central relief tent after the unfortunate 4th of August blast and crisis response initiatives- school aid distributions and school assessment- Miscellaneous distributions, animations and artistic events- fighting covid awareness campaign- crisis response aid (Rebuild Beirut Campaign) and (Justice to Beirut Initiative) in partnership with many national and international organizationsand many other HR, Awareness, Medical, Assessment, Arts, Animation, House repairs, In-kind donations and Education campaigns Grassroots Lebanon is made to benefit all Lebanese people in our way to the new Lebanon!