Lebanon – Generation Change https://blogs.dw.com/generationchange Whether they are campaigning for free press in Zimbabwe, helping provide clean water in India, or offering free music lessons to underprivileged kids in the UK, young people all over the world are making a difference. Wed, 16 Nov 2016 16:49:27 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 The Storytellers https://blogs.dw.com/generationchange/2013/03/the-storytellers-2/ Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:30:23 +0000 http://blogs.dw.com/generationchange/?p=3369 DW’s correspondents profile local leaders, activists, artists, musicians, rich and poor, ordinary and extraordinary people from around the globe, whose lives tell us more about the world we live in.

The Storytellers

This week, read about May Chidiac, who was one of Lebanon’s star TV anchors and one of the most outspoken journalists in her country. One day, as she was getting in her car a bomb exploded underneath her. Against all odds, she survived.

Here’s May Chidiac’s story.

What’s your story?

]]> Lebanese student encourages others to donate blood to save lives https://blogs.dw.com/generationchange/2012/05/blood-bank-founder-in-lebanon/ https://blogs.dw.com/generationchange/2012/05/blood-bank-founder-in-lebanon/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 14:15:10 +0000 http://blogs.dw.com/generationchange/?p=1673 If you live in a country with no centralized blood bank, where do you go if you need a transfusion? For Lebanese pharmacy student, Yorgui Keyrouz, the answer was his mobile phone. Lebanon’s health sector was in tatters following the country’s 15 year civil war, so Yorgui started an initiative to fill the gaping hole and he’s saved 15,000 lives already.

Yorgui Keyrouz

Yorgui Keyrouz started the blood bank on his mobile phone

Samar Khoury

Samar Khoury is ready to give

Listen to the report by Dalila Mahdawi:

Blood Bank in Lebanon

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