Challenges around the. Credible story. Starts december 10th on g. W. Much of beirut lies in ruins rebuilding the city is a race against time i mean its not just us i think everybody in beirut feels like there has been severely injured on august 4th 2020 a huge explosion at its port rocked the city. Beirut Historic Buildings remain unprotected in the rainy season they could be damaged beyond repair. Palaces of beiruts landmark perched on a hill overlooking the port its being home to marry cochrans family for 5 generations. The 3 story structure which dates from the 19th century bore the full brunt of the blast. So we are were 450 meters in trying to. Directly in front of the blast the silo is right in front of us no buildings in front of us theres nothing that took the blast or we did so thats why we got a direct hit and and thats why this elevation was out 23 centimeters. So palace had stood 460 years surviving one and a half decades of civil war and 2 world wars 1st surely unscathed now its fate lies in the hands of a few volunteers and some talented craftsman. Beiruts nobility this old merchant family made their fortune in the autumn an empire over the centuries theyve collected treasures from around the world which now need saving. Every generation has added something and in also in the process has for story so its been a. Evolution of a collection of people that lived in the house at the time almost everything was affected and its just. Unbelievable. Every day in coming here to months lets deal find something that they didnt notice its a new crime they didnt see that was there her family was also torn apart marys mother in law lady evil and so cochrane a legendary figure in beirut society died from injuries she sustained in the explosion and mary 2 was badly hurt. I believe. For the blasts were directly in front of the sign on 50 meters and i lost consciousness for seconds. I. Broke my. Attendance dislocated and i punctured my ma a couple ribs broken as well as cuts from glass. Im just lucky i didnt have all glass in my thanks because i open the door to the balcony. Roofs must be covered in Cultural Treasures secured before beiruts rainy season begins. In the rain a state of emergency but hes really pretty safe for it right here. Right area not to at all like you know i mean its not just us i think everybody in beirut feels like their soul has been severely injured. Yes mean mecca haun is an engineer whos working fervently to save beiruts Cultural Heritage the ban is hanging on badly damaged buildings around to the port i meant to give people hard. To fix who to raise again so. You know heres a theory creaky to connect to to nudge and then to to hope so too. Sometimes within the. Next really good. People of. This spirit. And certainly we. Still. Build a good reason would lead to the help you can prove by. Didnt bring enough things to hold on. To the extent of the devastation is almost in comprehensible. But yasmeen mecca home isnt alone she has a crisis group which analyzes the damage. Collects donations and coordinates reconstruction efforts. Everyone here is working pro bono voluntarily and for free. At the Crisis Center the group has noted the situation of every single building 8000 of them need restoring as a result of the explosion. From here or the blast. Heated or this area in a very strong way we have more than 100. 00 unit in very critical situation when the rains come to foundations of these 100 buildings could be damaged beyond repair and then trying to run to put on brain does this mean things. To run as fast as possible thats why we look at the forecast every day to see if we have one thing or 2 theres more and to protect as much as fast as possible. For us me meca on these buildings are more than just ruins. In your. Example of one of the most collapsed building that. They are bringing me. A sense of flying still being didnt go through with a sense of leaving. Wednesday bringing me from the busts all the memories space how the spirits of the sea and inheritance to the news are british can not say too much to stop and its all over and its not enough to try. Yasmeen meco on hasnt got around to examining all the buildings yet today shes a Company Architect Michele Dougherty maser the neighborhood with tiny high x. Houses in the world of vision are together they plan to assess the damage and see what they can do about it. Happening emergency actions in order to help the host who want to do winter they can also get only when you enter the hospital you dont look at the people that have a small injury you put them aside you say wait you go to the very. Very. Endangered ones so lets what we have. Lets go inside just to see the sham money and. Some gear. This kind of hurry to get to leaving heritage because it is do a house of the grandmother grandfather its called the concord. Church of hate edges. Even the most importantly to keep you can may have no money but if you have your history or your boat you belong to him. Tony hajek had just renovated his home there would. Not the hardware lay surviving as we underestimated the damage. Its beyond what we thought our capabilities could handle. We have to remove all of this honestly we are looking for the minimum amount of work that can keep a building standing and covered through the rain and sex club. Its so easy to take your suitcase and the. Easiest way i can not going to blame leaving but its more difficult to stay and to face. Ok mischas me michel is coming for free and we support them with Construction Materials but they fuse is short they count each plank each beam thats holding the 1st. And then we add to the middle the attorney we cant blame anyone were all on the ground. Not a lot of them just to be clear the mission isnt to rebuild the house on the job we just prevented from collapsing and keep it standing for you dont we that have deep tony hired used to be a successful businessman now hes reliant on years means help what happened in a very bad time. This is when i wish him the very. Your money at the bank you. Were writing to help. Our neighbors. You know why the government should be doing or. What is it. For months lebanon has been my head in a deep economic and financial crisis thats because the banks loaned out more money than they actually possessed so customers can no longer withdraw large amounts from their accounts because banks like the cash they can only take out small sums in the National Currency the lebanese pound. That also applies to wealthy families like to sir sachs so in beirut everyone whos currently in need of assistance the World Bank Estimates that the blast caused some 4600000000. 00 in damage. You dont have the financial means to be stored this entire house its going to take millions and tens of millions and we dont have those funds. Or not these days the only ray of hope is the solidarity among the people here but your time and spam volunteered to help and weve really seen the worst of the worst of what we have them up and on which is any fish and. Corrupt political political system and a non government and weve got great lebanese that are volunteering to come and save the house so we have to thank you thank you very much. A few days later so so callous is hosting one of the 1st events to take place off to the blast a workshop for traumatized children they draw whatever is troubling the images of death and destruction. Roland buerk and i as a chose the palace for its heritage. Ok so did you see the man get thrown across the square. Oh sweetheart you see how much kids there are knowing. Their deep emotions the sadness and anger inside them i wanted a place authentic i wanted a place its ahead of the 2 off lebannon its. The steroid and this is what this is the purpose of my its an. Architecture belongs to everybody. The fact that we can share the space with people inside what makes it important and what makes it go on living its nice to have life back in the garden it was good enough it was 8 back to what he was. Not what the ugandan you know. It looks like. A moment. But its really the work of. The 11 year old just like the great master himself. And donates the money she raises with her painting to a good cause. With Great Success as. Usual. Next on g. W. We know this is a scary time for the coronavirus is changing the world changing our lives so please take care of yourself good systems wash your hands if you can stay at how were d. W. B. 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