Ozzy Ehden: An Amazing Restaurant’s Message
Jacqueline Makari lost her son to illness and decided to open a restaurant and recruit only employees with mental health problems, to make Ozzy the first of its kind in Lebanon and send out an amazing...
View ArticleTwelve Year Old Girl Mechanic Video Goes Viral, Gets Dream Job
A lot of children are forced into child labor in Lebanon, and the authorities have made little progress to reduce child abuse. In fact, things have worsened ever since the Syrian crisis began whether...
View ArticleGreenpeace’s #Plastacna Campaign Gains Momentum in Lebanon
It seems like the garbage crisis in Lebanon has only gotten worse over the years, with sustainable solutions to the crisis nowhere to be found and carcinogenic and environmentally deadly solutions...
View ArticleDivorced Lebanese Women To have Children Listed in Family Register
When a woman gets married in Lebanon, her name is removed from her father’s family register and added to her husband’s. However in the event of a divorce, the woman’s register is moved back to her...
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#Dawwi_3alGhalat: Himaya Launches New Campaign to Prevent Child Abuse
One out of six kids in Lebanon are victims of a kind of sexual abuse. The number is scary but it’s true and the only way to prevent further child abuse is by reporting them. Himaya launched today its...
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So What if Nishan hosted a Male Stripper?
When I saw the video of a male stripper performing on Nishan’s new show on Al Jadeed, I was like why are all these TVs sinking to new lows but then I looked up the whole episode and it was a rather...
View Article1745: A New Hotline to Report Domestic Violence in #Lebanon
In collaboration with the NGOs KAFA (enough) Violence & Exploitation, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the National Commission For Lebanese Women (NCLW), the Lebanese internal...
View Article#AFEMENA: The Difference Between Flirting and Harassment
The Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality (AFE) has launched 16 days of activism against Gender based violence and is sharing very powerful and insightful videos to help people understand the...
View ArticleTV Anchors Disappear to Shed Light on Lebanon’s Missing Persons
Over 17,000 people disappeared in Lebanon during the civil war, and little has been done to unveil their fate and comfort their families. In an attempt to shed light on this issue on the International...
View ArticleA Valentine Proposal She’ll Never Forget
I did not see that coming to be honest. That’s one proposal she will never forget and that anyone watching it will struggle to forget as well. A powerful and strong message from UNICEF. Well done!
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Alarming Suicide Numbers in #Lebanon: How You Can Help
According to statistics released by the ISF, the average number of suicide cases throughout the past ten years in Lebanon is 119, with the highest recorded number being 143 in 2017. This means that 1...
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Meet The Female Members of Al Mina’s Municipal Police
Take note Broumana: This is the right way to empower women and encourage them to join the municipal police. You don’t need to “sexualize” them by dressing them in sexy shorts in order to empower them....
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How To Help 3ammo Hamed, The Old Taxi Driver Working with an Oxygen Tank
A picture showing an elderly man driving his taxi while on oxygen has gone viral online, which prompted a Good Samaritan to try locate the old man and see how we can help him. Hadil Ismail visited...
View ArticleOver 55% Unemployment Rates In Tripoli’s Jabal Mohsen, El-Qobbeh, and Tabbaneh
UN-Habitat and UNICEF Neighborhoods 2018 studies of Tripoli’s Jabal Mohsen, El-Qobbeh, and Tabbaneh revealed staggering poverty rates ranging from 55 to 60 percent. In Tabbaneh for ex who’s working...
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Over 4,700 Lebanese are Emigrating from #Lebanon Every Month
A Beirut-based research consultancy firm published statistics for the year 2019 regarding the number of Lebanese leaving the country for good, and over 57,000 Lebanese are expected to leave the country...
View ArticleArab Drama TV Shows Helping Normalize Domestic Abuse
DW shared a two-minute video showing excerpts from the latest Ramadan TV shows where women are being abused by their husbands or parents, and explaining how these shows are helping normalize domestic...
View ArticleBBC Charts: Lebanese Still as Religious in 2019 as They Were in 2013
BBC displayed the findings of the largest and most in-depth survey undertaken of the Middle East and North Africa on religion in seven different charts, and the outcome was that Arabs are increasingly...
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Speeding-Ticket-Like Brochures Handed to Drivers on Khalde Highway
In September 2018, an 18-year old girl called Amar al Ghali died in a fatal accident caused by a speeding driver on the Khaldeh highway. In an attempt to keep her memory alive and raise awareness on...
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#LADE Unveils Hamra Mural to Promote #WomenLeadership
LADE unveiled a massive mural in Hamra last week under the hashtag #YouAreANaturalLeader. The mural aims at creating an opposite standpoint on the gender roles in the society and focus on women’s...
View ArticleSurviving on $4 a Day
UNDP shared yesterday a powerful poverty stunt where bank cardholders were only able to withdraw $4 or its equivalent LL6000 from ATMs. When the bank’s officer showed up to listen to their complaints,...
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