4 questions to identify your personal stressors
These days, to be Lebanese means to be stressed, very stressed, on the daily. The struggle to make life livable is one we fight every single day, and the stress of it all is a lot to handle for anyone.
Lebanese Breast Cancer Foundation: Supporting Women with Breast Cancer
Every October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an opportunity to spread awareness about a disease that more than 2.3 million women were diagnosed with worldwide in 2020 alone. The importance of this month lies in spreading awareness on the significance of
Raising Awareness on Breast Cancer: Symptoms and Risk Factors
October marks the Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM), an annual international health campaign to increase the awareness of the disease and to support early detection and treatment. With the early detection of breast cancer, treatment options become more viable, and the
Raising Awareness on World Hepatitis Day:
Every year on July 28th, World Hepatitis Day is commemorated to create awareness of viral hepatitis, a liver inflammation that can lead to serious liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma. The slogan for this year is "Hepatitis Can't Wait," which emphasizes the
June is PTSD Awareness month.
As Lebanese citizens, we’ve been through a lot the past couple of years. Many of us have been subjected to traumatic events and situations, be it a cataclysmic explosion, the absolute crumbling of the state – and of the economy
#ChooseToChallenge: Basecamp tackles periods.
It’s time to talk about menstruation, period. That’s the message that Lebanese NGO Basecamp hopes to spread with their latest campaign. You could say that Basecamp was literally “born from under the rubble”. They originally gathered and deployed as a disaster relief
Blatant racism exposed by gruesome murder.
Saturday morning, Beirut woke up to (yet another) tragedy. In a black garbage bag dumped by the side of a road next to a BLOM Bank branch, parts of a human being were found. Shortly later, that unfortunate human being
Busted: 6 myths & assumptions about autism
Autism, or autism spectrum disorder (ASD), refers to a broad range of conditions characterized by challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech and nonverbal communication. People with autism have trouble with communication, and with understanding what other people think and
Mental Health Epidemic Wave amid Coronavirus Pandemic
The burden of the devastating economic crisis along with the prevalent coronavirus pandemic has become too heavy for the Lebanese people to carry.The citizens of Lebanon were forced to stand handcuffed while watching the corrupt ruling class take away every
Saying “no” is not rude!
With all the hardship brought forth by these couple of years, it is high-time to finally talk about the elephant in the room of every social interaction and let’s face it, no one really likes dealing with it either: yes,