Lebanon
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Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) assisted Armenian refugees in the 1920s and World War II victims in 1948-1949. From 1958 to 1962 MCC opened and maintained a Menno Travel Service office, and then returned in 1976 following the outbreak of civil war to aid the victims of the Lebanese conflict in cooperation with the Middle East Council of Churches. Rural development and emergency assistance in South Lebanon was the focus in those years, with MCC volunteers living in Sidon and Nabatiyeh. MCC personnel were frequently in very serious physical danger. After the June 1982 Israeli invasion MCC also assisted Palestinians in the Tyre and Sidon camps. In 1987 MCC directors located in Jordan, a nurse resident in Lebanon, and several Lebanese staff workers in Lebanon carried out the work of rural development and health and vocational training.
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