{"id":95666,"date":"2020-12-22T17:44:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T17:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.intersos.org\/beirut-alice-describes-the-explosion-has-shattered-our-lives\/"},"modified":"2020-12-22T17:44:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T17:44:27","slug":"beirut-alice-describes-the-explosion-has-shattered-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intersos.org\/en\/beirut-alice-describes-the-explosion-has-shattered-our-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Beirut: Alice describes \u201cThe Explosion has Shattered Our Lives\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe day of the explosion we were sitting outside. The children were playing; my daughter was sitting, waiting for a call from work. <strong>All of a sudden, the explosion occurred. My daughter was thrown in the air, <\/strong>a window shattered on her, leaving wounds on her head.\u201d Alice, a mother of seven, saw the world fall all around her. <a href=\"\/?page_id=13310\">The explosion <\/a>in the port of Beirut<strong> destroyed part of her house <\/strong>leaving her, her seven children, and six nephews with dire economic difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>My daughter is 30 years old, and after that disastrous incident she was fired<\/strong>. She was caring for an elderly woman. When her employer saw her arm in a cast, caused by the fall during the explosion, he decided to relieve her of her duty, afraid she was not going to be able to carry out her caregiving responsibilities fully.\u201d <strong>Alice\u2019s family is able to survive with great difficulty. <\/strong>The explosion has greatly <a href=\"\/?p=12393\">damaged their house:<\/a> the door to the bathroom blown apart, glass shattered all through the home.\u00a0 Everything blew away that day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>INTERSOS knocked on Alice\u2019s door: <\/strong>Our workers talked to her and her family, asking them what their most urgent needs were and distributing <a href=\"\/?p=12431\">basic goods.\u00a0 <\/a>\u201cThat day, we were finally able to eat a bowl of pasta,\u201d says Alice, \u201cwe did not even have dishes, everything was destroyed.\u201d\u00a0 <strong>Over 3,000 civilians have received assistance from our organization for the reconstruction and renovation of homes damaged following the disaster of August 4<sup>th<\/sup> 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe day of the explosion we were sitting outside. 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