Equipping ten Public Schools in Ashrafieh with Fire Safety Equipments
 
A Fire Safety Initiative done by Mouna Bustros Foundation, with Lebanese Fire Prevention Committee (LFPC) and Lebanese Association for School Safety Awareness (LASSA)
 
Feeling responsible for students’ safety in the schools, and after the increasing threat on the students’ lives due to various fire incidents, Mouna Bustros Foundation and the Lebanese Fire Prevention Committee (LFPC) and Lebanese Association for School Safety Awareness (LASSA) completed the third phase to distribute fire safety equipments to public schools.
 
Mouna Bustros Foundation is a Lebanese association without any political or religious affiliation. It intends to perpetuate the memory of Mouna Bustros, born in Achrafié, and who was active in the social and human rights fields.
 
The foundation works actively in various underprivileged districts of Achrafié towards the improvement of the citizens’ standard of living and the enhancement of the public health. It will develop several projects of which in 2009 the renovation and restoration of various public stairs. The second phase from the initiative to distribute fire safety equipments to public schools in North Lebanon, in collaboration with George Nassim Khoriaty Foundation and Lebanese Association for School Safety Awareness (LASSA). This initiative which is in its second phase covered over 60 public schools in the Governorates of Batroun, Koura, Zghorta and Mina -Tripoli, whereby each school was given fire extinguishers, smoke detector alarms in addition to thousands of brochures and posters and YASA.org newspapers. While the first phase covered 140 public schools in South Lebanon.
 
In all phases, a professional team from LFPC gave trainings on how to use these equipments in order to achieve higher performance in fire fighting. The public schools in Lebanon which received fire safety equipments till June 2009 exceeded 260 schools.
LFPC and its partners hope to reach all public schools around Lebanon in an aim to prevent more tragic fire incidents.