Major problems in Lebanon, Lebanese are taking matters into their own hands

• Daisy Mohr

  Middle East correspondent

Lebanon continues to collapse. There has been no president for months, the Lebanese currency is worth almost nothing, four out of five households live in poverty and, according to aid organizations, malnutrition is a rapidly growing problem.

Civil servants come to work sporadically, so hardly anything is done by government agencies. With no clear solutions in sight, many Beirut residents have given up hope that the government can do anything for them.

That is why some Lebanese have decided to take matters into their own hands. Gabriel Fernaine and his friends couldn’t stand it any longer and decided to take action themselves with ‘Rebirth Beirut’. They provide solar panels to make traffic lights work again, close holes in the road and work on street lighting so that people can safely walk the streets again at night. Correspondent Daisy Mohr went along on the road in Beirut.