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2008-079
September 28th
2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BEIRUT - The
Royal Academy of Science International Trust (RASIT) continues its humanitarian
efforts for underprivileged Iraqi Refugees in Lebanon
(Middle East).
The situation of Iraqi refugees in Lebanon is
dire. Although there
are no official figures for the number of Iraqis who, as a result of the war,
have fled to Lebanon,
according to the Ambassador of Iraq in Beirut,
more than 50,000 Iraqi families are living there. The UN High Commissioner for
Refugees estimates that one third of the Iraqis in Lebanon are children. These traumatized people are unable to work,
send their children to school or receive even the most basic health care. What
resources they may once have had, have been depleted. They live in precarious
circumstances in the poorest areas. With the current situation, health
and hygiene standards are almost nonexistent.
RASIT has established a medical clinic that will provide
primary healthcare to over 25,000 Iraqi refugees residing within the City of Beirut. The clinic, run by
renowned Lebanese doctors specialized in Family and Emergency Medicine, is
serving an average of 50 individuals per day.
How You Can Help?
In order to continue to provide assistance
to impoverished displaced Iraqis in Lebanon, and expand the services
for providing medications for chronic diseases and emergency hospital treatment
for a 2-year period, RASIT must raise US$1.7 million.
You can help ease the suffering of
thousands of Iraqi refugees by making a donation today toward Iraqi Refugees –
Lebanon Flash Appeal.
For more information on RASIT’s
humanitarian efforts for Iraqi Refugees in Lebanon, please visit our website: www.rasit.org
The Royal Academy of Science International Trust (RASIT) is
an international non-governmental organization serving education and humanity
since 1969.