SOCIETY OF SAINT - VINCENT DE PAUL

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Purpose
Schools
The Society worked through the construction and the direction of the scholar establishments to facilitate to the underprivileged youths or orphans the access to the culture by contributing to provide them a teaching of quality.
The technical School Saint-Joseph at Dahr is Sawan

The Society is associated with the lazarists Fathers and the daughters of the Charity to the development of this School. It dispenses to about 300 pupils, orphans or social cases, a technical teaching in branches of electricity, carpentry and the hotel trade.
The free School Saint-Vincent de Paul, in the socio-educational center Frederic Ozanam at Bourj-Hammoud, opened its doors in October 1992. It is called to a cultural radiance in a most underprivileged region of the North suburb of Beirut.
It is directed by a Jesuit priest, Dutch, also francophone and arabophone. The center will also include an accelerated professional formation School.

The school Saint-Roch
After its closing, for lack of means. The Conference Saint-Roch Hazmieh takes the responsibility of the management of the school.
Scholar help
It is translated by a contribution of support to expenses of tuition and purchase of books and supplies.
 
Handicraft
To sustain a population stricken by hostilities, the field of our activities is varied.
The "Mabrouk" workshop of quality embroidery, employs displaced family mothers. The production of this workshop is disposed of in Beirut in a permanent sales point, situated at the center socio-educational Frederic Ozanam and in Paris at the occasion of a yearly exhibition.
 
Aged people
Batroun: A home for people of the third age functions since January 1992. Inaugurated at Christmas 1991 by the international president Amine de Tarrazi, it already welcomes about thirty boarders, A clinic there offers the  indispensable services. The house in its three floors can welcome about fifty people in rooms of two beds.
Chahtoul: Another home for aged people is in way of construction at 40 kms of Beirut in the Kesrouan. Works advance progressively according to available financial means .
 
Clinics
The Society opened during the war 4 clinics managed by the local Conferences. They offer cares and medicines to a category of the population impoverished by a speeding inflation. These clinics are sustained by helps in parcels of medicines coming from Lebanon or from our friends abroad.
 
Leisure's
The socio-educational Center Frederic Ozanam at Bourj-Hammoud is called to play a cultural radiance role in the region.
It already shelters a scout group of 69 young
A cultural space or polyvalent room will permit thanks to the varied artistic and cultural activities the promotion of the underprivileged youth in this popular suburb of Beirut.
Courses of surging are given currently to about forty young's of the district.
A cine club enlivened by the young of the center
Holiday Colonies
Several hundreds of underprivileged children benefit every year of a stay in the mountain organized by the Society

Milestones
The Society of Saint-Vincent de Paul founded in 1833 in France exists in Lebanon since 1860. It includes actually some 1300 members split in 43 Conferences in the five districts of the country.
Similarly to the Society everywhere it traditionally assisted families in the need, visited patients and prisoners and attended to the formation and the instruction of the youth.
Confronted since 1975 to confusions provoked by the war: destruction displacements of populations, dramatic pauperization following of the ruin the economy and the inflation, it had to organize itself in view to face these new problems, in the measure of its means.
 
Reconstruction
Since the beginning of the war, and even before the stop of fighting in the country, the Society of Saint-Vincent de Paul - Lebanon, helped to the reconstruction of several localities ravaged and burned, notably in the district of Akkar in the North Lebanon.
Some 350 dwellings, stalls and shops could be put back in shape in other regions of the country.

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