IBBY CALL FOR SUPPORT FOR CRISIS RELIEF THROUGH BOOKS IN LEBANON

To: The IBBY Members
Cc. IBBY Executive Committee
Children-in-Crisis Fund: Call for support
Crisis relief through books in Lebanon

Dear IBBY Members, dear Friends,

I write to you with deep concern and a feeling of great emergency. These past couple of years, all of us have watched with bated breath the horrors of war, as the children of the world have suffered the untold misery of terror, destruction, and death.
It has been IBBY’s tradition to rally around its own when trouble calls. It is now time to rally around Lebanon, where, in just a few days, nearly one million people were forced to leave their homes and their lives behind them.

Our colleagues of the Lebanese Board on Books for Young People (LBBY) have developed a relief project to support the children displaced this war, many of whom are refugees from Palestine and Syria.

LBBY has launched an appeal for donations. IBBY will respond as it always does. Could you please share this appeal with your members and help raise funds? The current needs are dire, and, as the escalation of war continues in the region, we must be ready for further actions wherever we can provide support.

Thank you for your support and let’s join hands to provide some respite to the children who need our love and empathy urgently. Donations can be sent via the IBBY website or by contacting the IBBY Secretariat.

With my best regards,

Basarat Kazim
IBBY President

lbby_bringing_children_and_books_closer_together_in_times_of_crisis.pdf
File Size:	559 kb
File Type:	pdf

Download File

---