The Hariri Foundation Local Community Center in the Taamir Ein El Hilweh neighborhood serves as a hub for the local community to collaborate, plan and engage in ongoing local development activities. The center provides a wide spectrum of social services addressing local needs and risks through trainings, social activities, field assessments, and socioeconomic opportunities.

Hariri Foundation established the center in an initiative to institutionalize its urban and human development efforts in the marginalized neighborhood since the early 1980s, featuring the successful national advocacy to legalizing the informal settlements and laying out the legal framework for issuing house titles to property occupants.

Upon the center’s establishment in 2021, Hariri Foundation collaborated with the Municipality of Saida, the national Public Institute for Housing, as well as specialized faculties at Beirut Arab University and Rafik Hariri University in a joint effort to conduct an urban study of the neighborhood infrastructure and social needs and the development of a holistic urban development strategy and action plan.