Scouts respond to Beirut explosion

Lebanese Scouts swiftly moved to action to support relief efforts when the Port of Beirut was hit by a devastating explosion on 4 August, resulting in over 200 fatalities, thousands of injuries and leaving more than 300,000 people homeless. Over 5000 Scout Leaders and Rovers have been key to recovery efforts, administering first aid, transporting the wounded, helping to search for missing persons and donating blood. They continue to serve their distraught community helping to accommodate families in need, providing so many who have lost their homes with food, water and essential supplies and working to move and clean the debris.

You can support Lebanese Scouts to continue their vital relief efforts by clicking here and donating via the Scout Donation Platform.

Your solidarity via the platform will ensure that Scout volunteers are safely equipped with hygienic and personal protection materials and will help them to rehabilitate damaged infrastructure, set-up and continue running Scout facilities as shelters for displaced people, provide food and water to people in shelters and impacted areas, support the cleaning of debris from houses and buildings, and much more.

As always, all donations by BP Fellows on the Scout Donation Platform can be counted towards your ongoing fellowship, just select this option on the donate page.

We take this opportunity to thank all of you who have already donated and ask you all to share this appeal and our Facebook posts widely throughout your networks.

Photos in the gallery below from the various Lebanese Scout Associations, which make up the Lebanese Scouting Federation: