On 4 August a mas­sive explo­sion destroyed large parts of Beirut (Lebanon). As the peo­ple of Beirut are try­ing to get back on their feet and rebuild their city and their lives, our CIUTI col­leagues and friends of the Ecole de Tra­duc­teurs et d’Interprètes de Bey­routh at the Uni­ver­sité Saint-Joseph need our help. Its cam­pus has been severe­ly dam­aged, and in addi­tion ETIB fears that it will lose a great num­ber of its stu­dents who will no longer be able to con­tin­ue their edu­ca­tion there if they do not receive any grants.

CIUTI is, there­fore, launch­ing a call, appeal­ing to the gen­eros­i­ty of all col­leagues at its mem­ber insti­tu­tions. If you want to help out these aspir­ing trans­la­tors and inter­preters, you can donate an amount that you deem appro­pri­ate through any of these channels:

• Online with Visa or Mas­ter­card through https://www.usj.edu.lb/idonate/
• Bank trans­fer
• Europe
• IBAN: FR76 3006 6100 4100 0105 7670 146
• Hold­er: Uni­ver­sité Saint Joseph de Beyrouth
• Bank: Crédit Indus­triel et Com­mer­cial – Swift : CMCIFRPP
• Please men­tion: “Dona­tion for ETIB stu­dent scholarships”
• USA
• Account num­ber: 622712 401 001 002 01
• Hold­er: Friends of St Joseph’s Uni­ver­si­ty (Schol­ar­ship)
• Bank: Inter­au­di Bank, 19 East 54th Street, New York, NY 10022, USA
• Please men­tion: “Dona­tion for ETIB stu­dent scholarships”
• Addi­tion­al­ly for col­leagues in France (dona­tions are tax deductible): online through https://www.omcfaa.org/nous-soutenir-faire-un-don-en-ligne.php
• Addi­tion­al­ly for col­leagues in the USA (dona­tions are tax deductible): online through Pay­pal using this link https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=UWL_b8Fby_Xd_gCp2QMCnLc3BnJ4WzMdK1Q1fIKAK46ritwnyqVBXFIpWQ1mF5KI-USKMm&country.x=US&locale.x=US

Please refer to https://www.usj.edu.lb/idonate/ for any fur­ther information.

In order for your dona­tion to be assigned direct­ly to ETIB, we would be grate­ful if you could send USJ Foun­da­tion (which under­takes to guar­an­tee the con­fi­den­tial­i­ty of your data) a mes­sage in which you spec­i­fy that your dona­tion is intend­ed for ETIB stu­dent scholarships.