We’ve curated a list of our charity partners who are providing medical care, food, and shelter to those affected.
You can support them by making a gift from a Giving Account or donating to them directly.
British Red Cross
Staff and volunteers from the British Red Cross, and its international connections, are working around the clock to respond to the urgent needs in the area. They are helping to treat causalities and provide humanitarian assistance through their local teams. They are currently asking for donations to help people on the ground provide direct assistance.
Christian Aid
Together with the 14 other charities that make up the DEC (see below), Christian Aid are launching a national appeal to meet the escalating needs of people fighting for their very survival.
Working with their trusted partner in Lebanon, Najdeh, Christian Aid are already lending vital support to overwhelmed emergency services who are treating the injured, as well as offering food, mattresses, blankets and other essentials to people who’ve lost everything. Najdeh is also managing three UN schools that have been converted into shelters for people seeking refuge.
Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC)
You can help people affected by the current Middle East crisis by making a donation and helping to raise money for the DEC appeal. This will allow DEC charities and their local partners to scale up their response and reach more people.
- £30 could provide blankets for six people to keep them warm
- £50 could provide emergency food, for five families for one week
- £100 could provide emergency shelter for five families
Embrace the Middle East
Embrace the Middle East have been supporting Christian partners in the Middle East for 170 years. They currently support projects throughout the region as they work to transform lives and restore the dignity of the most excluded and marginalised communities. Their goal is to contribute to a culture of human flourishing in a troubled region.
Their partners across Lebanon are working hard to support many displaced families. The emergency supplies they have been distributing – such as food, winter essentials, fuel and hygiene kits – are a lifeline for many. Now, with many more families cut off from their homes and belongings, their partners are scaling up their support to reach more people.
Frontiers
Froniters are focussed on sharing the love of Jesus in Muslim communities. Their teams work out how best to fulfil their calling to make disciples in the place they live, and are committed to helping their communities through things like teaching, running businesses, building wells, providing medical care, art and science. They currently have teams in Lebanon who are assisting those affected by the crisis.
Help The Persecuted
Help The Persecuted are ministers of the Gospel who operating in the Lebanese region. They have created a fundraiser as they respond to needs on an ongoing basis.
Life Center
The team at the Life Center are raising funds for a project to produce and distribute meals for these displaced Lebanese refugees, while also laying the groundwork for a future kitchen initiative.
Medair UK
Medair's team are going above and beyond to help meet peoples’ most urgent needs: they are providing midwifery services for pregnant women and newborn babies, supporting schools that are providing refuge for displaced families, and distributing core relief items to thousands of people across 66 sites – and are supporting health centres, enabling people who have fled their homes to continue accessing primary healthcare.
Medair has been present in Lebanon since 2012 following the onset of the Syrian refugee crisis. Medair is accustomed to conducting large scale assessments and distributions to around 35,360 households each year, including shelter kits, core relief items and winter items. Medair regularly responds to local emergencies such as flooding, fires and evictions. Our ability to respond to crises in Lebanon has been witnessed on multiple occasions, such as the response for the onset of the Syria Crisis, the Beirut explosion, and the COVID-19 and cholera outbreaks, where we vaccinated 453,000 people within 3 months.
Samaritan's Purse
Samaritan’s Purse is a nondenominational international Christian relief organisation providing practical and spiritual aid to hurting people around the world in Jesus’ Name. They are currently serving victims on both sides of the conflict in the Middle East, including supplying and replacing ambulances in Israel, while also distributing hygiene supplies and shelter kits in Gaza.
Tearfund
Tearfund is currently working with local churches and partners across the Middle East. In Gaza, International Health Partners is providing life-saving medicine and desperately needed healthcare. In Lebanon, we’re working through local churches to provide food, mattresses and other essentials to people forced from their homes by the fighting. In the West Bank, we’re working with the Diocese of Jerusalem who are providing healthcare and education to those affected. This is only possible with your support.
Please, join Tearfund in prayer and give if you can to help them respond to the growing need.
Youth for Christ Lebanon
Youth for Christ Lebanon been doing reconciliation and compassion ministry among refugee youth for years and are putting together a response plan to the rapidly changing needs in the region.
Support Youth for Christ Lebanon
We’ll be updating our list of our charity partners and fundraisers that are responding to the Israel and Lebanon crisis as we receive more information.
Gifts to support charitable organisations will normally be applied to their general funds. However, you may request that your Gift is allocated to a specific purpose by selecting a Partner’s Project Fund or providing a specific reference in the ‘message of support’ field and we ask our Partners to give consideration to the Giver’s request (specific reference) and where possible, use the Grant for the purpose intended.
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