In Lebanon, strangers are chipping in to help others in small but meaningful ways

Waked helped provide a small amount of medication for someone in need of it for free. Photo: Hussein Malla/AP

To all the struggles of life in Lebanon – the pandemic, the power outages, the inflation, the punishing financial and political crises – add one more: shortages of crucial medications.

But as residents struggle to find the medicines they need, some are finding that their fellow Lebanese are doing what they can to help.