Tuesday, 3 August 2021, 10:06 am
Hundreds of thousands of children in Lebanon are going to
bed hungry, Save the Children warned today, with parents
unable to pay for basics such as food, electricity and
medicine.
The gap in finances needed to buy basic
goods has skyrocketed 550 percent over the past year,
according to new analysis of the financial situation of
families in Beirut published a year after an explosion in
the port tore through the city.
Save the Children’s
analysis found that families from virtually all wealth
groups in the nation’s capital have been plunged deeper
into poverty, with children increasingly being sent out to