Designer Nour Najem on Designing Better Health Systems During Crisis

FUTURE OF WOMEN founder Hallie Applebaum speaks with Lebanese designer and Lebanon Needs founder Nour Najem in Beirut, Lebanon about designing better health systems during crisis. 

Nour Najem is the founder of Lebanon Needs, an NGO team of Lebanese professionals mobilizing and volunteering  time and effort to support Lebanese citizens in this critical time of need. The multidisciplinary group consists of doctors, entrepreneurs, pharmacists, nurses, researchers and psychologists, located in and outside Lebanon. Nour is a serial social entrepreneur. She believes design’s true purpose is to draw change and out of the box solutions. Through her eponymous label, she has consulted and partnered up with Caritas, L’Artisan du Liban, Phenomenal Women, as well as other vulnerable communities. In 2013, she founded Kenzah in parallel to her brand, to preserve, develop and transmit traditional craftsmanship, and more recently Lebanon Needs, to provide vulnerable populations with essential survival requirements. 

Resources to support recovery efforts in Beirut 

Lebanon Needs: https://www.lebanonneeds.org > Donate at http://www.lebanonneeds.org/donate 

For those outside of Lebanon: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e1QvRXErLl-dujFyISdrRN_SkTlm6ToSQB8Sz7uauSY/mobilebasic 

For donation options and volunteer opportunities inside Lebanon: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s2v4SpMt0UESfrQJyPliFupbFLCT2cZdNxkPM7kWXQM/edit