Jesuits in Lebanon in the forefront to help displaced and needy

(August 01, 2006) :-In Lebanon, organisations and religious institutes continue to assist the displaced and needy. The number of these suffering people has reached 800.000 and continues to increase daily. Jesuits are in the forefront to help the displaced. They have not only opened their institutes to them but also mobilised seminarians and ex-students of various Jesuit Institutes present in the country. Students and professors of the Notre Dame College in Jamhour, some 10 kms south-east of Beirut, are helping in centres run by “Caritas Lebanon” especially in the region of Achrafie, where they have also distributed food and other essential items. Jesuit Fr. Salim Daccache is in contact with ex-students and donors, who are helping some six hundred Christian families taking refuge on Mt. Libano and Jezzine. Their numbers are going to increase as more displaced move in, he said and added that special help is being given to children who are injured.