Lebanon is currently gripped by an economic collapse with huge inflation rates and an unemployment rate of over 50%. Some don’t have anymore furniture, their house still is not completely rebuilt.” These families are the ones that were heavily hit by the Beirut blast. Janane writes: “We have visited people in their homes, we have assessed people and we chose the ones who really need assistance. Over a year on, and the situation for so many residents in Beirut is desperate. Lebanon has become the 48th country where School in a Bag have distributed SchoolBags. Janane Matar, Director of Triumphant Mercy, and her team have handed out the first SchoolBags to families affected by the devastating explosion, as the schools returned after the summer. A consignment of 240 SchoolBags were shipped to Beirut in May. The brief: ‘To support victims of the blast and Syrian families living in refugee settlements’. After Zoom meetings with charities on the ground in Lebanon, we pledged to support Triumphant Mercy.
Over 200 people tragically lost their lives and 300,000 people made temporarily homeless from the detonation of the Ammonium Nitrate.īlake, School in a Bag corporate partners, were keen to see where a combined effort could help. Buildings were flattened and windows blown out as far as five miles away from the epicentre of the blast. Thirty seconds later, a colossal explosion sent a mushroom cloud in to the air and a supersonic blast wave radiating through the city.
Eyewitnesses said it looked and sounded like fireworks going off.
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Shortly after 18:00 (15:00 GMT) the roof caught fire which triggered a series of small explosions. This had been taken off a stricken Moldovan cargo ship, the MV Rhosus originally bound for Mozambique. Unbeknownst to residents in Beirut, since 2013, Warehouse 12 had been housing 2,750 tonnes of the fertiliser Ammonium Nitrate. On August 4th 2020, in the Port of Beirut in Lebanon, a large fire broke out in Warehouse 12. The fire that shook Lebanon, and made hundreds of thousands homeless