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Over 822,000 people have been registered as displaced across Lebanon since the March 2026 escalation of hostilities — nearly 300,000 of them children, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Around 128,000 are sheltering in roughly 600 collective sites nationwide.

Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health reported 634 people killed and more than 1,586 wounded in the first ten days of the renewed violence, with children making up one in five casualties during the first week. The UN and its partners have appealed for US$308.3 million to support up to one million people over a three-month period.

On the ground, the reality is harder to compress into numbers. OCHA reports families sleeping in their cars. Collective shelters — mostly public schools — are running beyond safe capacity, raising the risk of disease. Winter conditions have been especially harsh on children spending nights without proper shelter.

This is why PATI exists. For families across Lebanon — in the south, in Beirut's southern suburbs, in the Bekaa, and in host communities absorbing the displaced — the need for food, blankets, hygiene items, and medical support is immediate and daily. If you can help, please get in touch.

Sources: OCHA Lebanon, March 2026 Flash Appeal; OCHA Flash Update #3 (7 March 2026).

Nearly half of Lebanon's population is now living below the poverty line. According to the World Bank's 2024 Poverty and Equity Assessment, the monetary poverty rate rose from 12% in 2012 to 44% in 2022 — more than tripling in a single decade. Almost three-quarters of the population experience multidimensional poverty.

The numbers are worst for children: an estimated 50% of children aged 0–14 now live in poverty, a generation growing up in the middle of a crisis with no clear end. Lebanon's GDP has contracted by roughly 40% since 2019, and the Lebanese pound lost over 98% of its value between 2019 and 2023 before stabilising.

What these figures mean in practice: families cutting meals to one a day, skipping medication they can't afford, children leaving school, elderly relatives going without care. Remittances from family abroad have become one of the largest stabilising forces in the economy — but not every household has someone sending money home.

PATI was founded in 2016, before the crisis reached its peak, to help Lebanese families in exactly these situations. Almost ten years later, the need is greater than ever. If you are able to support our work, please reach out.

Sources: World Bank Poverty and Equity Assessment 2024; World Bank Poverty and Equity Brief (April 2025).

Of the estimated 1.3 million people directly affected by the recent crisis in Lebanon, some of the least-heard voices belong to women heading households alone and to the elderly left behind when families split up to escape violence.

The UN Population Fund has warned of economic hardship driving reduced income, limited access to essential services, and rising exposure to exploitation among an estimated 57,000 women heading their households in Lebanon. In the first three months of 2026 alone, safe spaces and women's shelters supported more than 23,300 women and girls with case management and gender-based violence services.

Elderly Lebanese are another group at acute risk. Many have lost pension savings in the banking collapse, are unable to access needed medication, and rely entirely on family that may itself be displaced. Children under 14 face a poverty rate of around 50%.

This is the picture PATI's work responds to — not a single crisis, but the layering of many. PATI focuses on the people who fall through the cracks of larger aid operations: the elderly widow without family abroad, the single mother whose children cannot return to school, the family who lost their home and cannot afford to rebuild. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Sources: UN Population Fund Lebanon updates; OCHA Lebanon Flash Appeal (March 2026); World Bank Poverty and Equity Assessment 2024.