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The program at hand will respond to the crisis through a life-saving and stabilizing intervention (Modality 2) by paying monthly reimbursements and building the capacity of selected youth as street sports organizers and positive community role models. Lebanon Street Sports Relief (LSSR) will cover basic survival needs (food, water, shelter, etc.) for 50 households hosting an estimated 250 vulnerable individuals. In partnership with the organization Basmeh & Zeitooneh (“smile & olive”) GAME Lebanon is already implementing activities for refugee children and youth in the Palestinian refugee camp Shatila in the hearth of Beirut’s southern neighborhood. In 2016 the activities in the camp engaged no less than 631 children and youth at one of Basmeh & Zeitooneh’s centers with a 35 % female attendance. Basmeh & Zeitooneh (B&Z) has another six similar centers across the country where they provide relief and development for Syrian and Palestinian refugees, as well as marginalized Lebanese communities. It is the intention to use this infrastructure to scale-up the successful activities already tested.