JEN has finished its emergency relief program in Lebanon and would like to thank you very much for your kind contribution to the project.
Israel attacked Lebanon on the 12 July 2006. JEN intervened and conducted a needs assessment in the Southern part of the country on 17 August, immediately after the cease-fire between the two countries. Responding to local needs, our team distributed sanitary goods and reconstruction tools to those returnees who were suffering from severe livelihood losses after the war.
JEN distributed hygienic kits in five inland villages that municipal and international relief agencies had not reached. This project was effective in improving the sanitary conditions of returnees. JEN also offered reconstruction kits to 38 villages seriously damaged by the bombing. To do this, JEN established Tool-Kit Committees to manage tool lending to the local population, which satisfied both individual and community necessities. The Committees were successful in stabilizing community-based sustainable management systems. For example through the advertisement of the program to the local population, the effective and equal selection of the target population, the lending of reconstruction tools, as well as management of the Committees.
Soon JEN concluded that the local communities had established their own self-reliable systems through the reconstruction of their housing and a sense of solidarity within their community. Therefore, JEN decided to finish our projects in Lebanon out of respect for the sustainable management by the local population.
Thank you very much again for your kind understanding and donation to JEN's projects in Lebanon. JEN will continue relief programs for victims of disasters in countries all over the world.