As everybody have heard and seen on the news, 4th of August was hell day for Lebanon, where an enormous quantity of ammonium nitrate exploded and damaged and destroyed, within a radius of 5 km, houses, shops, cars and have killed hundreds of people and injured thousands of people.
Let me explain to you what is it like the Lebanese Expat experience on such type of event:
You are just going about your day, and you suddenly start receiving messages about an explosion in Beirut (at first sight you think of those normal accidents that could happen). Then a flood of pictures start coming on whatsapp showing homes and stores destroyed ans cars smashed all over Beirut. Your jaw drops and panic kicks in.
You pick up the phone to call your family, but lines are disconnected and you cannot reach anyone.
After trying all the call applications, you speak to your family who are thankfully OK and you hear their voices. The pure horror, how they thought they were going to die, how they wondered if this is a bomb, an attack, an earthquake, a building collapse!!!!!
You spend the rest of your night non stop watching and checking news for glimpses of hope, but end up seeing body after body being dragged, buildings totally destroyed, hospitals rendered useless.
Then you are supposed to go on with your life in your residing country! (I live in Italy). After watching news around the clock, you leave your house and think that you will see a city in ruins, but you see a normal city going about life, nobody is sad but you, you walk around like a zombie, feeling anger and frustration, just wanting anyone to acknowledge your pain and heartbreak. But you are the only one. Not being able to be on the ground with the volunteers and just stick to watching news is very hard. Our bodies may have not been in Beirut, but our hearts never left it.
Above is an image which summerize my last week.
Having exposed to you what are my inner feelings, my only way to support my beloved country is by creating a fundraising campaign in order to financially support all those volunteers that are restoring people's houses for those who now are living without a roof. This way i could feel that i did something to my brothers and sisters in Lebanon.
However i need your help in achieving this!
You will find hereafter a link to a gofundme campaign where the collected money will totally be devolved to those families who lost everything (every single penny! ).
Any donation ammount in foreign currency counts and makes a huge difference, since in the last year lebanese local currency lost more than 80% of its value.
https://gf.me/u/ymz3hw
If you are not able to donate but feel like you would like to support us, then feel free to share the campaign with anyone you know which could donate or share aswell. Let us reach the goal together and peovide relief to all those families.
Thank you all! May God bless you all!
Thank you @chocolatescorpi!! Hope we will be able to reach the target!! I am sure we will make it together.
We can only try!