Through The Alleys of Barraniyeh
Few stroll along these rumpled alleys, This is Al Harra Al Barraniyeh…one of the poorest districts on the Mediterranean sea.
TRIPOLI actually witnesses a huge imbalance between its suburbs.
And here the images captured are far from 2018.
Silent paths, locked stores and wandering cats.
This baffling maze embraces many deprived families, most of the males are unemployed, few kids are capable of attending schools while others don’t get the chance to receive any education.
Since Survival is the basic instinct, everything else becomes irrelevant.
“Since Survival is the basic instinct, everything else becomes irrelevant “
UTOPIA dared to knock these rustic doors, where a thousand stories aches the heart.
Actually, UTOPIA with ACTED and Centre de crise has implemented an urgent shelter, water and sanitation intervention that aims at improving the living conditions of Syrian refugee households and others in Barraniyeh area in Tripoli.
The projects has targeted 76 houses and provided them with plumbing, electricity, carpentry work etc. As well as various repairs and installations for each house. Plus, recreational activities, protection awareness sessions, and hygiene promotion sessions has been offered to beneficiaries.
In fact, Harrat al Barraniyeh witnessed several intermittent clashes that occurred between Al Jabal And Tebbaneh, amid the Lebanese civil war in 1976 until the year 2013.
Locals here, who suffer from extreme poverty, are still very welcoming and wear from ear to ear a bashful smile.
Utopia embraced a number of kids living within these alleys and organized PSS sessions for them, in hopes that it would ease some of their despair and divert them from the ugly reality they face everyday.
In a country badly governed, wealth became something to be ashamed of, specially once you confront such miseries. these places do not demand minor changes, they necessitate urban planning as well and psychological assistance to the people living in such doomed areas…
NGO’s are doing their best to make a change, but shouldn’t the government take action as well?
