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    University Students In Lebanon Leave Their Studies Aside To Save Beirut

    By Jess AbdoAugust 13, 2020Updated:February 15, 2021
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    The Beirut Port explosion that left the city in turmoil.

    No one has recovered yet. It will be futile to assume otherwise. However, the Lebanese are fighting through… with all that is left in them of courage.

    On the ground, chaos prevails in the absence of the government and its institutions in a capital wrecked by disasters and grief. The scenes from up close could discourage the bravest and break down the strongest.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/CDzXZDdDWLH/

    Yet, the people, especially the youth, are full-on volunteering to help out at various fronts, there where the state is failing.

    If an excuse could be given, one would say the state was certainly unprepared to deal with such a disaster; no system in place in a country too busy with political sectarianism as its top priority.

    But neither were the people prepared… nor warned neither equipped. And yet, here they are, rushing at once to deal with the most urgent to help each other in the most effective ways.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/CD0Ce9MHXKP/

    Particularly remarkable is the youth of Lebanon, helping with the victims, cleaning the rubbles, collecting in-kind donations, distributing food, cooking for families, repairing inside houses, providing meds and medical assistance, and on and on.

    These university students left their education on the side to help their capital heal and rise again. And their contributions are not minimal.

    The Lebanese University

    The Lebanese University formed the LUTF, an organization that is helping control the Beirut crisis by cleaning the damaged streets and buildings.

    الرئيس أيوب يطّلع من متطوعي مركز وحدة التدخل لمعالجة الأزمات (LUTF) على ألية التنسيق مع الجهات المعنية لمواصلة رفع آثار كارثة انفجار المرفأhttps://t.co/IyS70Q9ZhQ pic.twitter.com/sI9rp6wuiW

    — Lebanese University (@LebaneseUni) August 11, 2020

    طلاب من كلية العلوم الاقتصادية وإدارة الأعمال 3 يشاركون في لملمة آثار انفجار مرفأ بيروتhttps://t.co/6jjwUehGT2 pic.twitter.com/11agsss6jT

    — Lebanese University (@LebaneseUni) August 11, 2020

    طلاب من كلية العلوم 2 يشاركون في لملمة آثار انفجار مرفأ بيروتhttps://t.co/PdosYCRgJ5 pic.twitter.com/4q93JqimCJ

    — Lebanese University (@LebaneseUni) August 10, 2020

    طلاب كلية الآداب 5 يشاركون في لملمة آثار انفجار مرفأ بيروتhttps://t.co/XtvWkCv561 pic.twitter.com/w5ZVQoAKry

    — Lebanese University (@LebaneseUni) August 7, 2020

    The American University of Beirut (AUB)

    AUB students are helping Cooking For Beirut, an initiative by ESDU and Food Heritage Foundation, ensuring that over 300 affected families in Beirut receive daily meals.

    #AUB ESDU & Food Heritage Foundation have set up Cooking for Beirut relief initiative.

    They have delivered 300 family meals on daily basis, & expect to deliver more in the coming week.
    If you want to help #CookingforBeirut, donate cash, volunteer to cook or distribute hot meals. pic.twitter.com/KwPObHfk5i

    — American University of Beirut (@AUB_Lebanon) August 12, 2020

    Moreover, AUB students and graduates are using their expertise for Beirut’s benefit. Those in construction are assessing the damages in Karantina, Geitawi, and Mar Mikhael.

    Teams continued clearing rubble and sealing broken windows, while expert volunteers began damage assessments identifying essential interventions to enable residents to safely live in their homes – Karantina, Geitawi, and Mar Mikhael@AUB_Lebanon #BeirutRecoveryProject pic.twitter.com/pHgdhaS7sL

    — Center for Civic Engagement and Community Service (@CCECS_AUB) August 11, 2020

    We are #AUBProud of you Omar Kammouni and of all our students who are down there lending a helping hand. #AUB https://t.co/1EmQ8kVfio

    — American University of Beirut (@AUB_Lebanon) August 11, 2020

    The Lebanese American University (LAU)

    Alongside AUB, the students of LAU are helping with data collection, distribution of food and necessities, and cleaning up streets and houses.

    LAU’s OCE department set a tent at the end of Mar Mkhayel to help people affected by the explosion in terms of data collection, distribution of food & necessities and cleaning streets & houses. #laucares pic.twitter.com/zkC0WlIZg3

    — LAU (@lebamericanuni) August 11, 2020

    They are also volunteering in Spinneys Souks to cook, package, and distribute food.

    LAU students volunteering for the second day in Spinneys Souks with @pierrerabbat to cook, package, and distribute food to the community.#laucares pic.twitter.com/02l61qmeoD

    — LAU (@lebamericanuni) August 11, 2020

    In addition to that, they launched the “Servants of Society” campaign, formed from students of different majors and expertise to offer help where it is needed in the impacted areas.

    In the aftermath of the Beirut horrendous explosion, #LAUstudents have embarked on the Servants of Society campaign, offering their help where it is needed. #laucares https://t.co/Ixv2xMJASP

    — LAU (@lebamericanuni) August 10, 2020

    Université Saint-Joseph (USJ)

    USJ students have been also dedicating their time and energy to philanthropic efforts.

    Worth mentioning that students went to check on their campus after the explosion and found it severely ravaged. Without being asked, they looked for brooms and cleaning tools and went tidying up their halls, classrooms, and cafeterias.

    Les campus, les salles de cours, les halls, les amphis et les cafeterias ont attendu en vain le retour des étudiants cette année. Vidés de leur présence à cause de la pandémie, ils les ont retrouvés la semaine passée, suite à la catastrophe qui a frappé #Beyrouth.#USJ_Solidaire pic.twitter.com/Y1MDWaREen

    — USJ (@USJLiban) August 12, 2020

    Moving forward, USJ students of all faculties united to take action. Under the slogan USJ En Mission, they have been contacting those who lost everything and visiting them, cleaning their places, comforting them, providing food and medicines, and so on.

    Toutes les structures de l’#USJLiban s’unissent et passent à l’action.
    Contacter ceux qui ont tout perdu, se rendre chez eux, nettoyer, déblayer, réconforter, assurer la nourriture, des médicaments.#USJenMission #USJ_Solidaire
    Rejoignez-nous!
    Plus d’info: https://t.co/z0fG9R0BWv pic.twitter.com/jTiiCDHYyH

    — USJ (@USJLiban) August 10, 2020

    From their side, the meds students mobilized themselves to provide medical assistance in Gemmayzeh and Mar Mikhael, and also donating medicine and emergency kits.

    Des étudiants de la Faculté de Médecine de #USJ mobilisés pour assurer des soins et des médicaments dans la région de Gemmayzeh/Mar Mkhael sous la coordination de l'Opération 7ème jour @USJLiban pic.twitter.com/9Lc8XR4pzQ

    — Fadi Haddad, MD (@FadiHaddad_MD) August 7, 2020

    It is indeed overwhelming, pridefully so, how these youth of Lebanon have been so dedicated, effective, and well organized in helping out.

    Observing their actions, one could ascertain that Beirut couldn’t have survived this historical tragedy without them.

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