Margret Verwijk

@MVerwijk

Deputy Head of Mission | Embassy of the 🇳🇱 in 🇱🇧 | 💕 hummus & tolerance | If you can't share, you can't multiply | views my own | retweets not endorsements

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  1. Retweeted
    16 hours ago

    For to recover from the crisis, it needs a clear vision about a new socio-economic model built on people’s needs, leadership, political responsibility, performance and delivery. Lebanon deserves a prosperous future

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  2. Retweeted
    Jul 10

    If you are fully vaccinated and come from a low-risk area, you are exempted from the EU entry ban. As from today, proof of vaccination will not be valid until 14 days after full vaccination. Proof of vaccination issued before 10 July will remain valid⤵️

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  3. Retweeted
    Jul 10

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    🚸Child labour is on the rise in Lebanon. Children, some as young as 6, work in situations where they are exposed to risks of violence and abuse. UNICEF Lebanon has conducted an assessment revealing how the evolving situation is affecting children:
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  4. Jul 10

    Worrisome and stressful…

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    How does a hospital plan for a 26+ hours power cut? Who is accountable for any resultant loss of life? Authorities cannot claim ignorance, letters to those responsible were sent, a public cry was made, what more can be done? Is there no end to this darkness? Enough, we are tired.
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  5. Jul 8

    Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions…

    School's out for good? Lebanese teachers flee as financial crisis builds
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  6. Retweeted
    Jul 6

    A (very) frank and honest exchange of views between Ambassadors and caretaker Government Ministers on the desperate situation in 🇱🇧. 🇬🇧 message: we're deeply worried for Lebanon; we will continue to help the Lebanese people; but politicians must take responsibility & step up.

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  7. Jul 5

    There are solutions! If there is a will, there is a way…

    “You can go BIG TIME on solar🌞& wind🌬️, you can go BIG on , you can clean up the sector, focus on & independent regulator,” , regional director said at a panel session on convened by the . Read more👇
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  8. Retweeted
    Jul 2

    Violence against women and girls must be treated as the emergency it is - with resources, laws and political will. We must shift social norms, hold men to account, prevent and ultimately end all forms of this despicable & prevalent violation of human rights.

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  9. Retweeted
    Jul 2

    For most hospitals in 🇱🇧, the major concern currently is not the delta variant, nor shortages in supplies. The major worry now is electricity, without which medical equipments cannot work. Old generators cannot continue running nonstop. When they breakdown, lives will be at risk.

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  10. Retweeted
    Jul 2

    People in Lebanon face up to 22 hours a day without power due to an an unprecedented economic crisis, causing huge problems for those with serious medical needs

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    Jul 1

    A UNICEF survey found that 77 percent of the households in Lebanon do not have enough food or enough money to buy food, and 15 percent of families halted their children’s education amid the economic crisis. UNICEF warned that children are “bearing the brunt” of Lebanon’s collapse

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  12. Retweeted
    Jun 23

    Only in doing so, will be able to keep its highly qualified human capital. Taking action now is saving the future of the country.

    Now more than ever, must invest more and better in improving learning outcomes for children and making sure Lebanese youth are well equipped with job market skills to enable them to contribute to Lebanon’s economic recovery via
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  13. Retweeted
    Jun 29

    💡 From learning the ABCs to learning mathematics, refugee children deserve access to education for brighter futures. An important message from our Goodwill Ambassador .

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    Jun 28

    this driver’s van has run out of gasoline in the middle of the street so he’s just gotten on top and is yelling to anyone who listens about ’s crises. there seems to be only a few gas stations open in Beirut today

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  15. Retweeted
    Jun 27

    From women leading the protests, to women organising protests, to women being the voice of reason when men wanted to fight, to Lebanese women candidates who won many seats at today’s elections at the Order of engineers and architects in Beirut. Couldn’t be happier. Respect. 🙌🏻

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  16. Retweeted
    Apr 26

    My latest for the - where I discuss a problem that remains deeper than corruption, an economic crisis, and traditional parties in . A challenge that we should all be acknowledging, in hopes of fixing the country.

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  17. Retweeted
    Jun 24

    Great News!! Well done MEA!!

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  18. Retweeted
    Jun 21

    If we want to see a more peaceful world, we have to learn to collaborate. Young people shouldn’t follow previous patterns of behaviour. New conditions, like our interdependent, globalised world, require new ideas. Dividing people into ‘us’ and ‘them’ is out of date.

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  19. Retweeted
    Jun 21

    Khaled, his wife & children are living meal to meal. Sharp increase in food prices means that it is becoming difficult for families like his to put food on the table. Support from ensures we help Syrian in 🇱🇧 meet their nutrition needs.

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  20. Retweeted
    Jun 18

    📢 Council agrees: travellers from 🇦🇱 Albania, 🇱🇧 Lebanon, 🇲🇰 Republic of North Macedonia, 🇷🇸 Serbia, 🇺🇸 US and 🇹🇼 Taiwan should also be allowed to travel into the EU. 🌎✈️ Who else should be allowed? Find out in our infographic 👇🏻

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