Aleb Lebanon

Sponsor a Family in Lebanon

One World, One Heart.

Aleb offers the only high integrity, transparent, and scalable social safety net for Lebanon’s “missing middle”.

Support families in need with US$200/month for 6 months.

Your donation will be delivered in monthly USD bills and will cover basic needs for an entire family.

How It Works

  • We vet families in need across Lebanon and list their profiles below with names redacted for privacy

  • You can donate any amount. We will aggregate donations and release to a family once they reach US$1,380 or 1,1170 euros

  • To fully support a family (US$ only), select a family from the profiles below, click the button and enter your credit card details on Paypal. We will charge you US$230 every month for the next 6 months (total donation = $1,380)

  • $200 go to the family and are delivered in USD bills, cash in hand. $30 cover the costs of vetting, payment and distribution of USD bills. See the cost breakdown

Donate ANY AMOUNT, in USD or Euros

Sponsor a random family for $230/month or 195 euros/month for 6 months

Choose a Family to Sponsor

$230/month for 6 months

YAA12 - Health issues and requires an operation; monthly income not enough to support his family. Household: 4, Male, Tyre. Click to expand

Situation

The candidate is a construction worker but stopped working due to COVID-19 and the economic crisis. He is unable to pay his rent or support his family of four. His wife is unemployed and they rely on aids to survive.

Professional background

  • Building Constructor

  • Monthly income: LBP 500,000

  • Other income: 0

Personal Profile

  • Age: 60

  • Location: Tyre

  • Gender: Male

  • Marital Status: Married

  • Education: Primary

  • Total household: 4

  • Kids: 2

  • Elderly / Disabled: 0

  • Health insurance: No

Dona

FBQ22 - No fixed income; daughter has learning disabilities and needs private schooling. Household: 4, Kids: 2, Male, Ain Al Hilweh. Click to expand

Situation

The candidate, who doesn’t have a fixed income, has a daughter with learning disabilities and needs to be enrolled in a special school.

Professional background

  • Driver

  • Monthly income: USD 400

  • Other income: 0

Personal Profile

  • Age: 44

  • Location: Ain Al Hilweh

  • Gender: Male

  • Marital Status: Married

  • Education: Secondary

  • Total household: 4

  • Kids: 2

  • Elderly / Disabled: 0

  • Health insurance: Yes

AMM24 - Heart disease patient with a weak sight; income not enough to buy the needed medications. Household: 2, Male, Douris. Click to expand

Situation

After having a heart attack, the candidate did the open heart surgery and his sight is getting weaker. His income is not enough to buy the needed medications.

Professional background

  • Calligrapher

  • Monthly income: LBP 1,200,000

  • Other income: 0

Personal Profile

  • Age: 56

  • Location: Douris

  • Gender: Male

  • Marital Status: Married

  • Education: College

  • Total household: 2

  • Kids: 0

  • Elderly / Disabled: 0

  • Health insurance: No

Donat

MMD15 - Has special needs and no income; relies relatives' support. Household: 5, Kids: 3, Female, Nabatieh. Click to expand

Situation

The candidate is a person with special needs and has no income. She currently relies on her relatives for support.

Professional background

  • Sewing

  • Monthly income: 0

  • Other income: 0

Personal Profile

  • Age: 49

  • Location: Nabatieh

  • Gender: Female

  • Marital Status: Married

  • Education: Secondary

  • Total household: 5

  • Kids: 3

  • Elderly / Disabled: 3

  • Health insurance: No

Who We Are

Aleb is an initiative to support low-income productive Lebanese that have fallen into poverty through a time-bound safety net on a family-to-family basis.

Aleb is incubated by LebNet, a 501c3 nonprofit organization in North America.

We partner with Al Majmoua, a Lebanese NGO specialized in micro-credits, with over 400 employees servicing 90,000 recipients of micro-loans.

Al Majmoua vets families on criteria of need and lists their profiles below.

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