On day two of our trip to Lebanon and Syria we made a stop at Our Lady Dispensary, established in 1983. Housed in a small Beirut apartment provided by the Syrian Orthodox Church, this organization has done and is doing incredible work with those less fortunate in Beirut.
Our team met with Grace Boustani, the director of Our Lady Dispensary (OLD). She provides care for the poor of Beirut as well as the tens of thousands of refugees living in Beirut from Iraq and Syria.
Grace and her staff often meet families that have been displaced by war. These families, many using any form of transportation to flee Iraq and/or Syria, simply show up on the steps of OLD needing assistance. These refugees have only the clothes that they wear.
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