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Art for Lebanon

Art for Lebanon

Art for Lebanon

Choose Love, Maison Pan, and The Auction Collective are collaborating to create ART FOR LEBANON, an art exhibition and auction raising funds to provide critical humanitarian aid to vulnerable displaced communities in Lebanon. The free exhibition will run from 1st – 17th February at Maison Pan, Hobhouse Court, Whitcombe St, London WC2H 7HA.

All funds raised from ART FOR LEBANON will go to our Lebanon-based partners providing essential and effective aid on the ground, including urgent medical care, hot meals, shelter, education and mental health support.

Why Lebanon?

Over the past decade, Lebanon has faced a series of crises, causing the humanitarian needs to soar. Our partners on the ground are telling us that children and families are experiencing high levels of trauma, and 20% of the entire population of Lebanon has been displaced as a result of the escalating violence that began in 2024.

Lebanon is also facing a significant socio-economic crisis which has a profound effect on the basic rights and living conditions of all people living in Lebanon, with up to 90% of the population live in poverty.

Find out more by following @ArtforLebanon on Instagram

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An urgent message from our CEO

An urgent message from our CEO

An urgent message from our CEO

I know it’s easy to feel helpless and overwhelmed – but there is something we can all do.

We’ve just launched a match fund of $50k, so if you shop with Choose Love now, your donation will be doubled.

Please visit our online store where you can buy double the amount of hot food, coats for children, life saving medical treatment, heating fuel for families and much more:

I am so grateful for your support because it truly does save lives .

Thank you for choosing love.

Love from Josie x

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Olivia Colman – Why I’m choosing love this winter

Olivia Colman – Why I’m choosing love this winter

Olivia Colman – Why I’m choosing love this winter

Across the world, over 122 million people have been displaced, almost half of whom are children.

And if you aren’t one, then luck has been on your side.

Choose Love do incredible work. I wanted to share why I’m choosing love this winter, so I teamed up with Choose Love and  Coldplay to make this video, and let people know how urgent and important it is. Take a look:

Send a vital message: that when the world feels at its darkest and there’s so much in our lives we can’t control… we can still Choose Love.

So, please visit the Choose Love shop to do something amazing today.

Love from Olivia Colman

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All Eyes On Gaza: The Impact Of Your Donations

All Eyes On Gaza: The Impact Of Your Donations

All Eyes On Gaza: The Impact Of Your Donations

The situation in Gaza is unbearable. More than 2 million people, almost half of them children remain trapped, under bombardment with nowhere safe to go. It’s reported that over 20,000 children are missing, with many separated from their family, buried in unmarked graves, or trapped under rubble.

Our incredible partners have been doing everything they can to save lives, distribute food, medical supplies, provide shelter and emergency medical and psychosocial support, working in the hardest and most heartbreaking conditions. 

Together, we have already raised $2 million for our partners. Here are the incredible partners we’ve supported with your help so far. 

Thanks to a generous donor, we have a $1.5 million match fund for our partners in Gaza. That means that all donations up to that amount will be doubled. 

100% of what you donate will go towards providing critical aid for people in Gaza and those forcibly displaced, including food, shelter, water, clothing, support for mothers and babies, medical and psychosocial services. 

Please donate what you can. Every donation makes such a difference.

Our five incredible partners and their work:

Anera

Anera have been working tirelessly to deliver food to communities in Gaza, as well as distributing hygiene kits, running wound management clinics and supporting people with chronic health issues.

INARA

INARA is focussed on supporting the critical medical and mental health needs of children in Gaza. We have granted their work towards helping people access emergency surgeries, stocking medical supplies, providing post-operative care and running mental health projects in the hardest of conditions.

Humanity & Inclusion

Humanity & Inclusion supports people with disabilities and injuries in Gaza. They distribute essential supplies of crutches, wheelchairs, hygiene and first aid kits. They provide rehabilitation and post-operative care to the injured and educational activities to help displaced children.

Doctors of the World

Doctors of the World have been working in Gaza since 2006. They are providing emergency medical services across Gaza to save as many lives as possible, bridging a critical shortage of vital medical services including medicines, primary healthcare appointments, midwifery, nurses and mental health support via makeshift clinics and mobile teams. 

MAP

MAP continues to scale up their emergency response 
in Gaza by distributing urgent aid, including shelter supplies, water and food, and is delivering urgent nutrition support with local partners. Supporting the depleted health service, MAP is sending emergency medical teams to Gaza as well as providing hospitals and health centres with medical supplies and rehabilitating hospitals to function.

Please keep donating what you can. 

Thank you so much



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Safeguarding at Choose Love

Safeguarding at Choose Love

Safeguarding at Choose Love

Safeguarding at Choose Love

Choose Love has in place a robust set of safeguarding policies, which may be seen on the code of conduct page here. Our policies are regularly examined in the light of new learning, and formally reviewed annually by our Safeguarding Lead and the Executive Leadership Team and then approved by the Board of Trustees. We are confident that our policies meet the highest professional standards.

Our policy base is supported by the promotion of a strong safeguarding culture within the organisation. All new employees, volunteers and interns receive safeguarding training at induction and then again via refresher training. A Code of Conduct sets out our expectations and guiding principles for appropriate behaviour at all levels of the organisation and in all the environments in which we work.

Our safeguarding work is led and overseen by a Safeguarding Lead in collaboration with departmental heads of all our functions.  Additionally, a monthly meeting examines issues arising, and reviews our programmes through a safeguarding risk analysis framework. This meeting is attended by the Safeguarding Lead, the ELT, Director of Risk and Assurance, and the Trustee Board member with responsibility for safeguarding. We regularly update our community of partners and supporters on our safeguarding commitment through our social media channels.

Choose Love is sensitive to the needs of its partners for capacity building support, and we offer a range of support depending on needs. This may include a due diligence review, technical assistance, or provision of training. For example, in 2022, Choose Love began a capacity building programme of its partners in eastern Europe and delivered safeguarding training in Greece and in Lebanon.

If you have any questions on how we manage safeguarding at Choose Love or have any current concerns personally or on behalf of someone else, do reach out by emailing us here at our safeguarding inbox safeguarding@choose.love Your correspondence will be treated in confidence.

If you have concerns or would like to report a safeguarding issue, you can download and complete an incident reporting form, read our full Safeguarding Policy or communicate with our Safeguarding Lead via safeguarding@choose.love. Finally, if you are unhappy with any aspect of Choose Love’s work, find out how to take action by using our Complaints Policy.