Anti-Racism Movement

As the Israeli war on Lebanon continues and expands at a horrific scale each day, many groups and activists have been organizing incredible efforts to support migrant communities across the country. We’re highlighting a few migrant-led fundraisers, alongside allied initiatives.

Migrant communities are often left to navigate these conditions with extremely limited access to formal support. What this looks like on the ground shifts constantly depending on changing needs and varying access to resources.

Please support where you can and help amplify these efforts, efforts of people who are doing critical work at times of peak distress and overall exclusion and abandonment.

Some of the initiatives highlighted here:

Reman: Regroupement des Migrant.e.s de l'Afrique Noire is a grassroots organization and collective in Lebanon founded to support African migrant domestic workers, particularly those trapped by the Kafala system and affected by the ongoing war & escalation.

Egna Legna Besidet: (An Amharic term that loosely translates to “migrants for migrants”) is a Beirut based migrant domestic worker women run humanitarian and advocacy organization.

Voices of the Unseen: Emergency Response Coalition of migrant organizers and activists building community led solutions to systemic collapse, supporting emergency housing, healthcare access and basic survival needs.

Tres Marias: A grassroots collective based in Beirut and led by migrant women, racialised
women, and survivors of abuse under Lebanon’s kafala system.

Migrant Workers’ Action (ROR): Reclaim Our Right collective is a group of migrant women activists from Kenya, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Cameroon and the Philippines, dedicated to defending the rights and dignity of migrant workers in Lebanon. MWA supports and resources the collective's community organising work.

Sisters with a Strategy: Community-based organization empowering migrant women & LGBTQ+ communities.

A more comprehensive list of fundraising efforts is available through the link below. If you know of other initiatives or groups, grassroots or formal, that should be included and aren't yet, please reach out.

https://tinyurl.com/3t3j7xvj