Stand alongside families forced to flee in search of safety
A new emergency in Lebanon
As violence continues to escalate across the Middle East, Lebanon is once again deeply affected. Early March 2026, airstrikes have torn through South Lebanon, Beirut's southern suburbs, and the Bekaa Valley, forcing tens of thousands of families, over 1,200 million of people, to flee their homes with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
Schools have been converted again into emergency shelters, roads are congested with families in flight, and basic services are collapsing under the pressure of mass displacement.
Children, women, the elderly, and people with chronic illnesses are among the most exposed, arriving in overcrowded shelters without medications, food, or any of the essentials they need to survive. For many, this is their third, fourth, or fifth displacement. Children traumatised in 2024 are traumatised again. Elderly people fled without their medications. Pregnant women face giving birth on classroom floors.
The Good Shepherd Sisters programs in Lebanon serve 30,000 people every year in Mount Lebanon, Beirut and Bekaa Valley, providing shelter and protection to vulnerable women and girls survivors of violence or exploitation; social and psychological services for families, quality healthcare services at the St. Antoine Community Health Center in Beirut; education and safe spaces for recreational and after school activities for children. This dramatic emergency and increasing demand for aid and humanitarian support are causing even our essential services to collapse. Now, more than ever, it is important to support those most in need in Lebanon.
Watch the appeal from Sr. Antoinette and Dr Nancy Abi Assaf from the Community Health Center in Beirut