Top 10 Biggest Hopes Every Lebanese Has for 2020
Dreams do come true if you work hard enough to make them happen. On New Year's eve, everyone gets their hopes up, they start setting goals, making plans and clarifying what they should focus on in the upcoming year. Usually, the quote says "New Year, New Me", but for Lebanese people, and exclusively this year, it goes "New Year, New Lebanon". Here are some things every Lebanese person is hoping 2020 will bring for them and for Lebanon:
#1 Job opportunities
Via International Labor Organization
The unemployment rate in Lebanon has recently reached more than 63%. The Labor market in our country doesn't accommodate the work requests. This problem was generated by many, many reasons, some of which are the decline in investments, the absence of clear government policies for the labor market, the big difference between the requirements of the job market and students' specialties, etc.
But the biggest of all is the illegal placement's mode, which is recruitment by affiliation and not by efficiency, aka 'Wasta'. All of this needs improvement since Lebanon is loosing a very high number of its creative and genius minds to immigration.
#2 Aging security
Via pierre_k6
This project has been canceled, postponed, and argued about many times in the Lebanese government. This has caused this law to remain unapplied in spite of its crucial necessity. Everything from employee pension to providing assistance to the ensured successors in case of death can be a huge relief for many Lebanese people, who live every day worrying about their senior years or their parents'.
#3 Insurance of housing loans
Via Sima Diab/Bloomberg
Lebanese people, especially the ones who are young and in love, have carried an extra burden on their backs when the housing loans were stopped. Most people are unable to buy a house and get married when getting a loan was their only option.
This is also a right that has been taken away from the people in Lebanon due to corruption, leaving some people without even a roof above their heads.
#4 Improvement in public schools and universities
Via the daily star
The educational sector in Lebanon is also struggling. Too many Lebanese students are unable to enroll in private schools which are by far the majority in Lebanon.
Their only alternatives are either getting no education at all or enrolling in a public school. This has caused public schools to become overcrowded and the number of students to exceed what the schools can accommodate.
The students of public schools in Lebanon aren't getting some of their basic rights like proper heating and being in a proper building, etc. This is also the case for the students of the Lebanese University.
#5 H ospitalization Coverage
Via Al akhbar
How many cases of death in front of the hospital doors have we seen in Lebanon, when some hospitals won't even let a critical condition in if they don't have money?
It is about time that financially struggling people, who can't pay hospital fees, don't end up dying for lack of medical care. It is literally a tragedy, so stop making human lives a trade! All the same with the medication prices in Lebanon.
#6 24/7 electricity
Via LIMS
The tale of the electricity crisis in Lebanon is as old as time. Lebanese people have heard too many promises over the years, but we still end up with only 6 hours of electricity a day, sometimes less.