Rody and i are staying. We hope that our passion for what we do , our work, our community, will continue despite as friends say ” being drained by ensuring basic commodities”.
Yesterday i had to wait 24 hours for my cell to recharge for 7% for the battery thanks to drastic power cuts.
We go at 5.30am and wait for filling fuel until 9.30 to 10 am if we have the chance to get fuel. Kids sleeping in the back of our small car. Me praying that no “machkal” /clashes will happen as our kids are with us and we are afraid.
Twice we waited and waited and when our turn arrived the fuel station said sorry we are closing.
2 weekends ago, we couldn’t find simple bread in bakeries.
Yesterday i decided to go to the supermarket. Each visit we need special psycho-support sessions. I’m still not believing the prices of simple items that we were used to buy.
Today even products we dont even know abt are out of reach.
the price of a kitkat is today out of reach. Hyperinflation 2021 Lebanon
Drained? Yes.
Frustrated? Yes.
Angry? Yes.
Resilient? NO .
We are f… up .
Basic medicine is lacking.
Panadol. Simple panadol against normal kids fever is lacking! My best friend coming from egypt offered my kids panadol. Yes. The gifts today are medicines. Basic ones.
Chronic deseases medicines? A nightmare search for patients. My personal experience:
Cant thank enough pere Gabriel , without him i wont be able to stand , to walk without passing away. Daily in my prayer . Each time i take those pills i remember how hard it is to find them. How bad my health is when i dont take them.
And my desease is simple if compared to cancer patients without medicine.
Despite all this.
My family and i dont want to leave. “on s’accroche coute que coute”.
Is it the good decision for our kids? No clue. For our elder parents? We dont know. We tell them when there is power ( my parents have only a land line working when there is power ) things will get better soon.
As a dauther and dauther in law of elders, as a mother of two small kids i hope that our choice to stay and fight by just staying in Lebanon is not the worst decision we took for them all.
Here is in brief what we are living.
i have been tweeting our daily experience with #MayDay for some times.
suistanable solutions? Will keep that for another day. Hoping that my connection will pass this post and let me publish it. Because also connection is lost when we live with power cuts
Rita
september 2021
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