As the two-year anniversary of the #Beirut port blast approached, CARE's Patricia Khoder, a lifelong Beirut resident, wrote a diary to capture the loss and uncertainty she experiences each day. Patricia often mourns the city she knew before the blast. Poverty, severe shortages of medicine and other consumer goods, and the slow pace of rebuilding are daily challenges. This July, she wrote, “Today, almost three years after the onset of the economic crisis in Lebanon, we live with one hour of electricity a day, we lack medicine, we have spent months queuing in front of gas stations. Finding an Internet card can sometimes take ten days. Every day, I waste time sorting out problems which should not arise in a normal country, and which relate to water, electricity, medicines, finding spare car parts.” Click the link in our bio to read Patricia's full diary. #BeirutBlast #Lebanon #Beirutexplosion