In 2022 the TCCT worked with the Archdiocese to assist three of its most hard-pressed, multiconfessional, schools situated in Baouchrieh, Bourj Hammoud and Nabaa. They number some 500 - mixed - pupils aged 4-14. In theory the schools rely on the Archdiocese, grants from the Ministry of Education and contributions from parents. In practice, because of Lebanon’s economic and financial crisis, almost the entire burden falls on the limited funds of the Archdiocese and any donations.

TCCT has been supporting all three schools in a variety of practical ways: paying for essential repairs, blinds to reduce harmful seasonal fluctuations in classroom temperatures, replacement furniture for a teachers’ room vandalised by intruders and 100kgs of badly needed school supplies donated by parents and pupils of a TCCT partner school in West London, delivered to Beirut by a  trustee in time for the new academic year.

TCCT trustees are now currently working with the Archdiocese on a short term vital project based in the Bourj Hammoud school to create a ground breaking Centre for Severe Learning Difficulties to be expanded later to the other two schools. This comes in response to the dramatic escalation, brought on by the dire social and economic circumstances, in the numbers of pupils whose teachers identify as having serious learning difficulties.

The Centre seeks initial funding for the pilot in 2024 of US$50k and will be seeking a significantly larger amount when the project is extended to include the other two schools.