About Migrant Community Center
Migrant Community Center
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.
Current Projects & Programs
Newsroom
MCC houses the Migrant Workers Newsroom – a migrant-led media-making project that challenges the exclusivity, inaccessibility, and discrimination within mainstream news, journalism, and research production in Lebanon. Through the Newsroom, migrant communities access the space, equipment, training, and mentorship necessary to lead on documentation, communication, and advocacy campaigns. The project is open for collaboration on different initiatives (ex: photo-essay, podcast, documentary, research, and other media productions), one of which was a media monitoring report analyzing news about migrant workers led by IMRT-LAU.
Current Projects & Programs
Capacity Building
The capacity-building program is centered on the themes of Solidarity & Sustainability for 2022-2023. It intends to facilitate solidarity networks, collective action, and alternative unionizing efforts, through trainings around community-organizing, mutual support, and arts for example. The program intersects with other activities at the center, especially with migrant-led initiatives that require various workshops (ex: crowdfunding, social media, storytelling, facilitation, etc). Please include any relevant skills, experience, and credentials in the application.
Current Projects & Programs
ICT & Language Education
The ICT & language education program is currently seeking volunteers/interns to reach weekly classes at MCC. Please apply via this form.
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You are also welcome to contact us with any questions, feedback, and/or new ideas for collaboration on
For media and research interview requests, you can fill out this form and we will get back to you soon after.
