Our Story

While most nations around the world have exited the COVID-19 forced lockdowns with a calculated hope of economic rebound, growth, and recovery, the Lebanese society is moving towards a grimmer perspective tarnished with despair, deadlock, and uncertainty. The reason is that Lebanon is facing its worst and hardest crisis ever since the end of the Lebanese Civil War that went on for 15 years as a result of a confluence of calamities.  Between street protests, COVID-19 pandemic, dangerous depletion of resources, Beirut port explosion on August 4th, 2020, protracted absence of a functional cabinet and overlapping economic, financial and social crises, Lebanon grapples to survive on the edge of collapse. Therefore, Lebanese people's hearts are sorrowful and their spirits low, left with little hope in a bright tomorrow.

We, at MyBeirut, were brought together by the tragedy that struck our city. We were deeply shaken and had the common goal of wanting to help in whatever way we could; so we joined our efforts and resources, in desperate attempts to alleviate some of the damages caused by the blast, have taken personal initiatives and made collective efforts to compensate on people because we wanted to bring back the soul that was crushed beneath the emotional rubble. We knew that in order to rebuild the city of Beirut, we needed to restore its pillar, its citizens.

This is how MyBeirut was born; an apolitical, non-confessional initiative that strives to help rehabilitate the people of Beirut.