The doctor examines a child in one of the dispensaries
In our Lebanese society there
are great humanitarian institutions that deserve a glance of appreciation and admiration for the works they accomplish in the cultural, health, social, and charitable fields — and perhaps among the most prominent of these institutions is the Society for the Care of Child and Mother, founded in 1949. Since that time the society has been in continuous expansion, an expansion that has accompanied its works in all their aspects. Having begun by confining itself to securing treatment and medicine for needy children in one small dispensary, it has now branched out in its giving: it receives sick children with their mothers in its seven dispensaries, and the number of patients it treated last year reached twenty-two thousand, whereas in its first year the number did not exceed three thousand. And today it opens its heart to
expectant mothers, extending care to them; it supervises 76 deliveries and vaccinates some three thousand persons...
Astonishing figures, no doubt;
and if they prove anything, they prove the high zeal with which the members of the Care of the Child society are endowed, and their readiness to sacrifice their time and their rest in the service of the project and its advancement — so, at least, we understand it, for we believe that great works are measured only by their good results. This becomes clear to us the moment we realize that it is the society's members themselves who supervise the running of the dispensaries every day, without pay, on the most modern methods of organization, spurred on by faith in the importance of the giving they offer... Blessed be this giving! And that is to say nothing of the guidance visits they pay in the poor quarters — and what social and humane fruits they reap from them!
The expansion of the projects of the Society for the Care of Child and Mother has been accompanied by a great eagerness to join the society's membership, so that the number has reached about one hundred, drawn from
A vaccination carried out by the Society for the Care of the Child