Nour survived the Beirut blast, but one week on she's not sure the country will

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Nour Wahid is used to the organisation she works for showing up after a disaster. But being in the middle of one was terrifying, she writes, and now the whole of Lebanon is on a knife-edge.

I could hear screams around the building and on the streets. I ran barefoot into the hallway. My sister was screaming,"everything is falling. Everything is falling."

All the windows in the apartment blew out. My sister flew across the room. The front door of the house hit me and my sister. I found out later I had fractured my arm. I work at Save the Children's offices in Beirut. Humanitarian organisations normally turn up immediately after a crisis or disaster. We’re not normally on ground zero when the disaster strikes. Save the Children’s Beirut offices are only five kilometres from the port and were badly damaged.

Around 100,000 children in Beirut have seen their homes destroyed and 300,000 people have been left homeless. In the greater Beirut area, 910,000 people, including 564,000 children did not have enough money to buy basic essentials including sufficient food. The silos at the port stored 85 per cent of the countries grain all of which is now destroyed or inedible. Seventeen containers of coronavirus-fighting personal protective equipment were also destroyed in the blast.Tony left his family in Lebanon to find stability in Australia. No one will stay now, he says

 

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