© Graeme Benjamin/Global News Jaden Lawen, 17, has started an online fundraiser for the relief efforts in Beirut, which has raised nearly $80,000 as of Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020. A 17-year-old Halifax student who’s already raised tens of thousands of dollars for relief efforts in Beirut hopes to keep the […]
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The UN’s culture and education body will organise two conferences to seek “considerable” funding for blast-hit Beirut, its director said Thursday in the Lebanese capital. Audrey Azoulay told AFP during a visit to a school damaged in the colossal August 4 explosion at Beirut’s port that two events were in […]