What happens when a state fails? Lebanon’s study in survival.
Each day for Safa is the same: a race for a solution.
Her husband, a construction worker, has been without work for six months. The two now worry about how to make their nearly bare cupboard – and the $30 in their bank account – stretch to make their next month’s rent.
Her children skip one to two meals per day.
“We have no government, no services, no electricity, no currency, no hope,” says Safa, who did not wish to use her full name. “Who can we even turn to?”
It is a question being faced by many Lebanese: What happens when a state fails, and no one is there to help?
In Lebanon – in the midst of what the World Bank is calling the worst economic collapse the world has seen since 1850, and in the aftermath
The spiral downEconomic costsStepping upThe struggle for hope
