The Migrant Community Center (MCC) is an anti-racist, feminist, and alternative social space built around the interests, initiatives, and needs of mainly women migrant domestic workers living under the sponsorship system (Kafala) in Lebanon. Since 2010, MCC has been a safer space for migrants to meet, make friends, share resources, learn languages, build skills, produce knowledge, self-organize, and advocate for their rights as leaders of change. 

The center has united over 500 migrants representing over 20 nationalities who continue to support each other especially following the escalation of social, political, economic, health, and human rights crises in Lebanon. Since 2019, MCC has been co-led by a rotating board of members that holds advisory, decision-making, and leadership roles, including direct involvement in the strategic planning and day-to-day life at the center.

MCC closed for a year due to Covid-19 and during the solidarity response launched by ARM, and reopened one center in Beirut mid-2021. Its current programs include community-building, capacity-building, psychosocial wellbeing, language education, media literacy, mutual support, and community-led initiatives. Here’s an overview of different activities in which you can volunteer, intern, or consult, by filling the following form: The list is updated regularly depending on the needs for support.