Hello, my name is Tatiana and I am asking for help for my daughter Albana Taleb and her three children. She is currently stuck in Lebanon with her kids because there is a travel ban on the children made by their father. She cannot leave the country with them, and she refuses to leave without her children. I am so scared as the situation in Lebanon is very unsafe, where the USA Embassy is calling the citizens to leave Lebanon, and she can’t take the kids away. She is staying to protect them while trying to fix the situation through lawyers, but we don’t know how long this legal fight will take. The father lives outside the country while she is left in a foreign country with the children on her own. He stopped supporting them and has not paid anything for the past three months for rent, and daily expenses. Also, he cut communication with her since mid of October.

The children are 5, 4, and 2 years old and depend completely on their mother. They are still very young and need medical care and vaccines, along with food, housing, and basic necessities. During their marriage, my daughter gave her savings and family money for investments meant for the family’s future. Today she cannot access that money and she has nothing left. All the investments got sold and he took all the profits without her knowing. Our family is helping as much as we can. Her sister is helping with lawyer fees, but the costs are too big for us to handle alone as we don't know how long she has to be in Lebanon. We are fighting to bring her and the children back to the USA.

But until then, we are asking for help and support for Albana and her three young kids. Any support would mean the world to us as we work to bring them home and give them a safe, stable future.