NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Relief organizations are scrambling to help the victims of Tuesday’s blast in Beirut, which killed at least 137 people and injured approximately 5,000 others.
Here are some of the organizations to which you can donate to help the city and its residents recover from the tragedy:
- The Lebanese Red Cross is “the main provider of ambulance services in Lebanon,” according to its website. The organization is currently accepting donations of any amount on its website. Donate here.
- Doctors Without Borders staff members rushed to Beirut’s hospitals to help medics treat patients “immediately” after the explosion, the organization’s website says. Donate here.
- The World Food Program is sending 5,000 packages of food to families affected by the explosion as part of its initial response effort, according to its website. Food security was already a serious issue before the blast, “with one million people already living below the poverty line and 45 percent of the Lebanese population sliding into poverty,” the organization said, citing data from the World Bank. Donate here.
- International Medical Corps has launched an emergency response to the explosion, “coordinating closely with the government and other responders to quickly provide help to overwhelmed hospitals and health facilities,” its website says. Donate here.
- Save the Children’s Lebanon Children’s Relief Fund is working to address the “urgent needs of children and families” in Beirut, with its field workers reporting that “entire streets have been wiped out by the explosion and many children are missing and looking for their parents.” Donate here.
- Humanity & Inclusion is providing “vital rehabilitation care” to people who were injured by the explosion, including post-surgical physical therapy. Donate here.
- UNICEF staff members are “on the ground, helping authorities assess urgently needed medical and vaccine supplies, rushing bottles of water to first responders and residents in the Beirut port area and working with child protection colleagues to reunite children separated from their families and provide counseling to children traumatized by this latest catastrophe,” its website says. Donate here.
- Beirut-based nonprofit organization Beit el Baraka is raising money to help rebuild homes in Beirut. Donate here.
- The nonprofit Impact Lebanon has launched a fundraising page “to help victims whose homes were lost and damaged to pay for hotel fees or rent apartments.” Donate here.
- Children’s Cancer Center of Lebanon is raising money to support children in Beirut who were being treated for cancer when the blast happened. “Today, many of the children suffering from cancer have been transferred to CCCL after other hospitals have been badly damaged,” the center wrote on social media. “But to be able to sustain their treatment, we need your help." Donate here.
