For Lebanese, recovery too heavy to bear a month after blast A month after Beirut's massive explosion, Lebanese families are still struggling with rebuildingBEIRUT -- A month after Beirut’s devastating explosion, Ghassan Toubaji still sits under a gaping hole in his ceiling — he can look up through the dangling plaster, wires and metal struts and the broken brick roof and see a bit of sky. Lebanese families are still struggling with rebuilding in the wake of the massive explosion centered at Beirut’s port. A month later, Beirut is still a wounded, grieving city struggling with the calamity that abruptly altered so many lives. “I don’t have a leader that I follow to chase and secure money,” Toubaji said, referring to Lebanon’s sectarian-based patronage system that fills the place of the absent state. When the blast happened, Toubaji fell on his face, and shattered glass covered his back.

Source: ABC News September 06, 2020 05:15 UTC