Empowering Women: Handicrafts Courses

Empowering people, including women in particular, is at the heart of Makhzoumi Foundation’s mission, especially since job opportunities are not always available. Since learning handicrafts is a definite opportunity in the hands of the learner, for it does not require large capital and can be implemented at home and with simple tools, Makhzoumi Foundation’s development…

Creating Beautiful Decorative Items!

Since its establishment, Makhzoumi Foundation has been organizing awareness meetings and environmental craft courses, through which it encourages waste reduction and reuse, as well as recycling, which are the three ways that the Foundation considers the best solution to the waste crisis, rather than incinerators that are harmful to humans and the environment in general.…

Raising Awareness on Diabetes with LPSA

Lebanese pharmacy students have established several years ago an association that gathers people from all Lebanese universities, specializing in pharmacy studies. Their mission is to unite all pharmacy students around Lebanon, allow them to learn from one another, and share experiences together through organizing and taking part of many healthcare events. They have named it…

Micro Insurance Product Development in Lebanon!

The Lebanese Micro Finance Association, in collaboration with USAID, and SANAD technical assistance facility, held a two-days conference about “Micro Insurance Product Development in Lebanon, on July 3rd, at Monroe Hotel Beirut, in which Makhzoumi Foundation’s Micro Credit program participated, along with many other micro crediting associations. The conference aimed to have concrete action plans…

Raising Awareness to Combat Desertification

On the occasion of World Day to Combat Desertification, the 16th of June of each year, Makhzoumi Foundation’s Development Program participated in an awareness-raising event for a group of Al-Mabarrat school students during the environmental day organized by the Al-Mabrat Charitable Society in the pine grove of Beirut on 20 June 2019. Awareness sessions on…

No to waste Incinerators!

To refuse to set up waste incinerators in the capital Beirut because of their disastrous impact on people’s health and the environment in which we live, Makhzoumi Foundation participated in a protest in front of the Beirut Municipality building in down town, during the meeting of the Beirut Municipal Council, which was on its agenda…