No child, no mother, should ever be left without care.
ACT For Lebanon is joining forces with ASSAMEH Birth & Beyond, the organization that has kept Lebanon’s public maternity and pediatric wards alive since 2014, making sure that Lebanon’s most vulnerable mothers and newborns receive the care they deserve regardless of their ability to pay.
Why this cause matters
Every year, 70,000 babies are born in Lebanon. Nearly 9,000 of them arrive too soon, premature, fragile, and fighting from their very first breath. In 2024, that number fell, not because fewer babies were born, but because war and poverty are taking their toll before birth even happens.
Since 2014, ASSAMEH Birth & Beyond has worked alongside the Beirut Governmental Hospital Quarantina to make sure that when these babies arrive, care is waiting.
Abandoned newborns, victims of neglect and abuse, critically ill children with no family to speak for them, the hospital takes them all in. Over the years, it has treated more than 14,500 patients and handled 40,000 external consultations, becoming the national referral center for Lebanon’s most acute and medically complex pediatric cases. Not by choice, by necessity. Because for so many families, it is the only place that will not turn them away
Lebanon’s public hospitals are the last safety net for mothers and newborns who have nothing. They don’t choose to come here. They come because there is no other option.
Right now, the funding that keeps those hospitals running is drying up. The gap between what is needed and what is available grows wider every month. Behind that gap are real families, mothers who cannot afford a private clinic, newborns in incubators, children with no one to pay their bills.
Your donation is what stands between them and being left without care.
Your donation goes to
- Obstetric care: Midwives, medical supplies, and equipment for high-risk deliveries
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Neonatal intensive care: Incubators and specialist care for premature and critically ill babies
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Patient fund: Covering hospital bills for families who cannot pay their share
“These mothers and babies arrive in the most fragile condition, often without family support. The hospital is their only safety net. And without continued funding, that net disappears.” Pr. Robert Sacy, Founder, ASSAMEH Birth & Beyond
Who we are caring for
Mothers
Women facing high-risk pregnancies, obstetric complications, and difficult deliveries who cannot afford private hospital care.
Newborns & children
Premature and critically ill babies, including abandoned newborns and children affected by neglect or abuse, in need of intensive neonatal care.
Every amount matters
ACT For Lebanon, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit connecting American donors with vetted partners on the ground in Lebanon, has joined forces with ASSAMEH Birth & Beyond to make sure no mother or child is left without care. All donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
In a public hospital stretched beyond its means, the most basic supplies: syringes, IV lines, sterile gloves, oxygen masks… are not guaranteed. Your $25 covers one day’s worth of the consumables that keep a ward running and a patient safe.
For families already pushed to the edge by Lebanon’s economic crisis, a hospital bill, however small, can be impossible to pay. Your $100 covers what a family cannot, so that a sick child or a mother in need is never turned away for financial reasons.
A premature baby can spend weeks, sometimes months, in a neonatal intensive care unit, dependent on incubators, monitors, and round-the-clock specialist attention. Your $250 funds one week of that care for one baby, giving them the time they need to grow strong enough to go home.
When ASSAMEH launched the obstetrics department in 2024, one of their first acts was funding the salaries of trained midwives, because without skilled staff, equipment alone saves no one. Your $500 covers one month of a midwife’s salary, ensuring that every woman who walks through those doors is met by someone qualified to help her.
