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PRESS RELEASE: Covid-19 will exacerbate child labour in Lebanon and drive more people into poverty, Save the Children warns

Poor families and vulnerable children face months of struggle without the bare minimum.

في بعض الأحيان ، كل ما تتمناه هو امتلاك القدرة على إخبار العالم ما يدور في ذهنك، عندما تتنحى الألقاب والأسماء جانباً وعندما لا يهم من أكون أو من أي بقعة في العالم أتيت.

في اليوم العالمي للمرأة أكتب بإسمي وباسم صديقاتي وفتيات مجتمعي.

Sometimes, it doesn’t matter who you are. It doesn’t matter what your name is, or where you are in this world. Sometimes, all you want is to be able to tell the world something you always wanted to say.

I write today,* on International Women’s Day, to say something on behalf of my friends, on behalf of girls in my community, on behalf of myself. 

One in two children in Lebanon have been bullied at some point in their life, a new nationwide study by Save the Children has revealed.

A national survey has highlighted a massive underreported bullying issue in Lebanon, where children develop anxiety and even drop out of school as a result of being subjected to different forms of violence in their learning and community surroundings.

By: Ahmed Bayram & Aliaa Awada

Ascending rugged hills uncovers the fertile mountains that embrace this village. Shebaa, on the southeastern edge of Lebanon, is a typically calm place that has gone quieter this morning. It has taken us three hours to get here which, by Lebanon’s standards, is a marathon journey.