Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Donates $30,000 to the Armenian Community in Lebanon

The Armenian Communities Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is making a humanitarian donation of $30,000to three Armenian community-based social aid organizations in Lebanon to support their activities in light of the socio-economic and medical emergency in the country due to the COVID-19 crisis.

The three organizations which will receive assistance (10,000 USD each) are: the Armenian Relief Society of Lebanon (Lipanani Oknutian Khatch), the Armenian Educational Benevolent Union (Hay Grtagan Paresiragan Miutiun) and the Howard Karagheusian Commemorative Corporation. Funds will augment each organization’s capacity to provide basic needs such as food, medicine and medical services to the most vulnerable sectors of the Armenian community.

This donation is complementary to the Department’s engagement with the Armenian educational sector in Lebanon. In December 2019 and January 2020 support was sent to the 18 Armenian schools in the country, in line with the Foundation’s focus on education. It is also in addition to the assistance provided to Armenia in April for COVID-19 related medical supplies.

The donation made by the Armenian Communities Department is in line with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s wider emergency COVID-19 relief program. It is one of the several initiatives the Department has undertaken in dealing with the pandemic.