Lebanon, September 28, 2024. Hussein Malla/AP
**Update:
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Airstrikes over the past two weeks have displaced up to one million people across Lebanon. In addition to this mass displacement, the strikes have caused thousands of deaths and injuries, heightening international concerns about the potential for a wider conflict in the Middle East.
Alight and our affiliates are on the ground responding to this and several other ongoing crises demanding the world's attention. Alongside the devastation in Lebanon, we are also working to support Rwanda, which is battling an outbreak of Marburg virus disease, a rare illness with an 88% fatality rate; Sudan, where severe acute hunger is gripping nearly 26 million people—more than half the population—amid an ongoing civil war; and South Sudan, which is struggling with an influx of almost 794,000 refugees and South Sudanese returnees from neighboring Sudan as it faces economic instability and successive epidemic waves of cholera, malaria, and measles.
In such emergencies, people often find themselves suddenly without homes, livelihoods, or essential services like water and sanitation. Alight’s emergency fund enables us to respond swiftly in these situations, going beyond providing basic needs to help communities build resilience.
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