URGENT: Emergency assistance for migrant domestic workers in Lebanon

  A renewed Israeli bombing campaign of Lebanon has as of today (March 4th 2026) killed at least 70 people and displaced 80,000. As the situation across the Middle East continues to deteriorate, migrant domestic workers in Lebanon are also once again forced to flee as entire villages and communities come under the threat of aerial attacks. We need your help today.

    Egna Legna Besidet (Amharic language term, loosely translates to “migrants for migrants”), is a Beirut based migrant domestic worker women run humanitarian and advocacy organization. We’ve been on the ground distributing emergency humanitarian aid to migrant domestic workers across Lebanon, with many of them being displaced and forced to seek shelter in abandoned buildings or in the open on the streets as a result of airstrikes that have devastated the country since 2024. Our organization is still addressing the demand for clothes, food (both dry food and hot meals), sanitary basics, rent assistance and other essentials for migrants and their families who have been displaced for over a year now. And now, the problem is set to become far worse. 

On behalf of everyone at Egna Legna Besidet, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Banchi Yimer, 

Executive Director, Egna Legna Besidet.