1. In progress Projects

1. Kitchen Equipment for the Village Welfare Society. Value 24,000 USD. The Village Welfare Society in Deirkouche serves the community in offering training for practical skills, such as cooking, home economy, crafts, small business management. This school is of great assistance to the community,since they teach the  ladies how to work from home. So they utilize their time effectively and they can earn an income, during winter season this income may become the only income. Thus, equipping the center with a kitchen where experts will demonstrates the art of cooking, the way to preserve agricultural produces of the land, start catering business. At the same time, land cultivation will increase since it will be a profitable business and hence they will not migrate to the city.Time needed to implement the kitchen is between 4 to 6 weeks when the funds are secured.           

2. Water Purification Plant connected to the existing Water Reservoir in the village of Aammatour. Value 30,000 USD. There around 360 fountains, springs and streams in the village of Aammatour and still the villagers have to buy bottled water due to the contamination of their water resources. The municipality completed the piping network from the main spring Ain-El-Arish (vine spring), so when the purification plant is installed  then the villagers can make use of the water in their households.
3. Equipments for the social & sports club of Beit-el-deen and Maaser el Chouf for their sports and social activity.
4. Small fire fighters for the village of DierElKamar and surrounding villages that can easily drive in the forests of the Chouf region. This is quite important especially after the fire that erupted in September and threatened the whole area. for f
5. EKG for the public medical clinic in the Mazraet El Chouf.

2. Pending projects from Year 2006-2007 

1. Six small Tractors and  Six pesticides Spray pumps for  the Agricultural Co-operative  in Chouf. Value is 20,000 USD.
2. Nursing Emergency Unit for the "Sœurs de la Croix" Home for the disabled. Value is 20,000 USD. The "Sœurs de la Croix " (Sister of the Cross) is a humanitarian home for the disabled (mental and physical disability) in Deir-el-Kamar. The nuns are taking care of the 300 residents of the Home, having a nursing emergency unit at the center will help them in demonstrating an effective first aid assistance prior to moving the patients to a hospital. The timely and efficient handling of an emergency case will decrease the risk on the patient and  increases the recovery percentage.  
3. Post-operative Recovery Bed for Ain-Wa-Zein Hospital.  Value 22,500 USD. Provide a bed outside the operating rooms for monitoring under-anesthesia patients after undergoing surgery. Instead of keeping the patients in the operating rooms after surgery, they could be moved to the recovery bed prior moving the patients to their rooms, thus will lead to proper utilization of the hospitalization period and increase the patients satisfaction as well as efficient health monitoring. Up-to-date and fully equipped Recovery Room is one of the main requirements in the accreditations standards requested by Ministry of Health in Lebanon. Ain-wa-Zein hospital serve the Chouf area, around 700,000 resident during winter and 1,700,000 resident in summer. Availability of the funds determine the project implementation and finalization, purchase and installing the recovery-bed will take maximum two weeks and the bed would be operational.     
4. Educational equipments and materials for the ARC-EN-CIEL school in Kafarnabrakh - Chouf. Value 25,000 USD.

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