{"id":60272,"date":"2020-06-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/60272\/heartbreaking-afp-photo-series-shows-lebanese-posing-with-their-empty-fridges"},"modified":"2020-06-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T00:00:00","slug":"heartbreaking-afp-photo-series-shows-lebanese-posing-with-their-empty-fridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/60272\/heartbreaking-afp-photo-series-shows-lebanese-posing-with-their-empty-fridges\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartbreaking AFP Photo Series Shows Lebanese Posing With Their Empty Fridges"},"content":{"rendered":"As part of a project intended to show the crushing reality of the Lebanese economic crisis, Agence France-Presse (AFP) published a series of photos that were truly jarring.<br \/>  <br \/>  <I><b>Editorial Purpose:<\/b> We are sharing this piece of content to give a voice to our people and possibly mobilize change. <\/i><br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lebanon&#8217;s economic crisis has led to a collapse of the local currency and purchasing power, plunging whole segments of society into poverty as exemplified by near-empty fridges in many households. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFP?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AFP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uRdpvynIo7\">pic.twitter.com\/uRdpvynIo7<\/a><\/p>\u2014 AFP Photo (@AFPphoto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFPphoto\/status\/1275612104960036864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  Dozens of citizens standing in front of bare and empty fridges, giving us insight into the heartbreaking financial strain families all around the country have been experiencing for so long. With hundreds of thousands of jobs cut, an economy and currency that has completely tanked, and no end to the crisis in sight, we can only expect to see more heartbreaking images like these. <br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lebanon&#8217;s economic crisis has led to a collapse of the local currency and purchasing power, plunging whole segments of society into poverty as exemplified by near-empty fridges in many households. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFP?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AFP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6QnHWTvtXf\">pic.twitter.com\/6QnHWTvtXf<\/a><\/p>\u2014 AFP Photo (@AFPphoto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFPphoto\/status\/1275526542425075712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  The pictures were taken by photographers Mahmoud Zayyat, Ibrahim Chalhoub, Joseph Eid, and Anwar Amro for AFP.<br \/>  <br \/>  If you&#8217;d like to help provide assistance for vulnerable families who cannot meet their basic food needs, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/countries\/lebanon\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">World Food Programme<\/a>.<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>More like this:<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/60267\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Syndicate Of Hospitals In Lebanon: We Will Soon Run Out Of\u00a0Anaesthetic\u00a0Equipment\u00a0<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a project intended to show the crushing reality of the Lebanese economic crisis, Agence France-Presse (AFP) published a series of photos that were truly 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