Cologne/Beirut. With the support of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Malteser International is further expanding medical care for people affected by the war in Lebanon. In addition to the eleven health centers, people are now also receiving medical care directly in the emergency shelters by the staff of the Order of Malta Lebanon. In addition, blankets, towels, hygiene articles and other sanitary materials are being distributed to around 1,000 families who urgently need them and were unable to take them with them when they fled.

“Our colleagues from the Lebanese Order of Malta are currently working at the risk of their lives to provide medical care for the people. The additional support now enables us to provide care to even more people,” says Lisa Kramer, Country Coordinator for Lebanon, who was still working in Beirut up until a month ago.

Malteser International has been working with the Lebanese Order of Malta to help people in need in Lebanon since 2012. Malteser International focuses on mobile and stationary health care and on improving the nutritional situation through the operation of agricultural centers.

Malteser International (MI) works as an international humanitarian aid organization. It is an aid organization of the Catholic Order of Malta and particularly fulfills the order’s mission of “helping those in need”. The mission is to improve the health and living conditions of suffering and displaced people worldwide. The organization provides aid to people in need in over 140 projects in 37 countries, regardless of religion, political conviction, origin or gender. Christian values and the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence form the basis of its work. For further information please visit: www.malteser-international.org/en    

Lisa Kramer, Malteser International’s country coordinator in Lebanon, is available for interviews and sound bites.

Media contact: +49 (0)221 9822-7180, katharina.Kiecol@malteser-international.org

The people in Lebanon are in urgent need of donations.

Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V.
IBAN: DE10 3706 0120 1201 2000 12
S.W.I.F.T.: GENODED 1PA7
Keyword: “Lebanon”

Malteser International is a member of “Aktion Deutschland Hilft” and is urgently calling for donations for the people in the Middle East:

Aktion Deutschland Hilft e. V.:
Account IBAN: DE62 3702 0500 0000 1020 30
Keyword: “Emergency aid Middle East”
https://www.aktion-deutschland-hilft.de/en/