Members of the Baytna Baytak NGO Jad Farhat (right) and Gaelle Fenianos (left) sanitise and prepare an oxygen machine before it is delivered to patients in need in Beirut. Photos: AP
In the middle of the destroyed Beirut neighbourhood of Gemmayzeh, a small team in masks and gloves were sanitising and packing oxygen machines to be sent to those in need.
It’s the latest venture of a Lebanese civil group that arose with the coronavirus pandemic and has been finding new avenues to help as the country’s crises expand.
“No one is exempt from Covid. Nobody. Nobody has super-power immunity, ” said Melissa Fathallah, one of the founders of Baytna Baytak, Arabic for Our Home is Your Home .
Recently in Beirut, a small group of people cleaned oxygen machines to send to those in need. The move was the latest in a series of activities by a Lebanese group trying to serve the public during the country’s health and economic crises.
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In the middle of the destroyed Beirut neighborhood of Gemmayzeh, a small team in masks and gloves were sanitizing and packing oxygen machines to be sent to those in need. It’s the latest venture of a Lebanese civil group that arose with the coronavirus pandemic and has been finding new avenues to help as the country’s crises expand.
“No one is exempt from COVID. Nobody. Nobody has super-power immunity,” said Melissa Fathallah, one of the founders of Baytna Baytak, Arabic for Our Home is Your Home. “We saw that our own relatives and our colleagues are suffering with this, we decided, okay, we are going to start another fundraiser and to specifically focus on the oxygen machines.” Raising more than $27,000, they currently have placed 48 machines with those who need it across the country.
February 11, 2021
BEIRUT (AP) In the middle of the destroyed Beirut neighbourhood of Gemmayzeh, a small team in masks and gloves were sanitising and packing oxygen machines to be sent to those in need.
It’s the latest venture of a Lebanese civil group that arose with the coronavirus pandemic and has been finding new avenues to help as the country’s crises expand.
“No one is exempt from COVID-19. Nobody. Nobody has super-power immunity,” said one of the founders of Baytna Baytak, Arabic for Our Home is Your Home, Melissa Fathallah.
“We saw that our own relatives and our colleagues are suffering with this, we decided, okay, we are going to start another fundraiser and to specifically focus on the oxygen machines.”
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