Deploying resources and personnel to support people fleeing bombardments World-renowned nightclubs SkyBar in Beirut, along with Skin, another club in the same building […]
Category: kindness
The Red Boat
A man was asked to paint a boat. He brought his paint and brushes and began to paint the boat a bright red, […]
A testimony of a seminarian
“It is difficult to find the words to express what I experienced in Anta Akhi. It was magnificent! Words cannot really say what I received during these ten months, but I will try to share my testimony anyway. Anta Akhi is a bubble of tenderness in which it is easy to love. Love draws from a source, otherwise it is empty. The source from which “the young” draw their love is Christ. The fragility of the young people with disabilities brought to light my own fragility. They are not perfect and neither am I. At their contact, I learned not to be a “know-it-all” anymore, but to listen and let myself be taught. Holiness is simple and joyful, it makes no noise, that’s how we live in Anta Akhi. With all of you, and with so many life companions, I learned that. Anta Akhi is a place of truth. At the “Home of Tenderness” I saw that we could not pretend or appear. We are asked to be. Be ourselves. I liked being a servant of joy, sharing my love of humor, making the “young people” and the members of this large family laugh. I also felt honored and powerless to share the suffering and distress of the Lebanese people and those with whom I shared my daily life. I deeply believe that friendship has no borders, and the one I created this year at Anta Akhi will remain engraved. Thank you wonderful family of Anta Akhi for everything I received, thank you dear “young people” for showing me the way to follow, thank you Lord for calling me to Anta Akhi. Pardon me for my lack of courage and love. Be all blessed and be all holy!” Learn more about Anta Akhi, an NGO […]
Yoga for Peace in Lebanon
“Peace begins with a smile” In an unprecedented and intensifying flood, 60 million people around the world have become refugees, often escaping war […]
Hamra Street Cleanup
Volunteers from various NGOs and organizations teamed up today to give back to Hamra some of its glow by cleaning up the area […]
Giving smiles to adults with disability: my best reward!
For Giving Tuesday, we asked all of the former volunteers who spent one day in our home of tenderness, to send a photo […]
Abandoned by state after explosion, Lebanese help each other
(Image: University students who volunteered to help clean damaged homes and give other assistance, pass in front of a building that was damaged […]
Man providing water to injured pigeon after Beirut explosion gets praise online
Journalist Vivian Yee, who is the Middle East correspondent for the The New York Times, shared the image of the man on social […]
Anonymous volunteers create “wall of kindness” to help those in need
In Lebanon, a group of anonymous volunteers set up a “wall of kindness” to help those in need. It encourages people to hang […]
Yoga teacher rebuilds studio thanks to kindness of strangers
‘If it were not for Lebanese solidarity, we would have lost all hope,’ says Hala Okeili Hala Okeili was two minutes away from […]