Since April 2005 AMURT is running a free homeopathic medical service for the Palestinian refugees here in Lebanon.

The main focus has been in Shatila and Borj Al Barajne camps, which are located in the south part of Beirut. Initially we were hosted by different local NGOs with offices in the camps but from November 2005 we opened an AMURT Clinic in Shatila and more recently another one in Borj Al Barajne.

Our work has progressed well, and we can say that we now enjoy the trust and appreciation of the camp residents. Of course we had to overcome the suspicious tendency the Palestinian refugees have developed in the last five decades they spent in Lebanon, years marked by several wars and massacres. Also we are using homeopathic remedies and they look different from ordinary medicines, and finally the fear of local pharmacists who felt threatened by our free distribution of remedies.

To date we are taking care of more than 600 patients, most of which are children, who usually respond very quickly to our treatment. After a few successful cures, word has gone around that we are good in treating children and so we have become popular with mothers who bring their babies and toddlers at any sign of acute illnesses.

Coming to the more recent events that have forcefully placed Lebanon in the spotlight of public opinion, AMURT and AMURTEL volunteers already working here have started serving the internally displaced Lebanese that within days of the beginning of aerial bombardments and artillery shelling have arrived in masse from the South of the country.

On the 20^th of July we contacted the government officer in-charge for the refugees, Walid Mlaib whose office is currently based in a large school complex in Kaber Shmoon housing about 450 refugees.

Since we had completed the government registration procedures for our organization Ananda Marga Yoga, which is here a non-for-profit Civil Company, we have all the necessary legal documents and he granted us the permission to offer to the refugees homeopathic medical service directly at the government schools where they have been sheltered.

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