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.”