Somewhere in a Lebanese family group chat right now, someone is typing a version of the same question: does anyone know someone flying to Lebanon this week? It gets forwarded, screenshotted, reposted to Instagram stories, and answered mostly by luck. Wasleh was built to replace that scramble with an actual system.
Wasleh is a free platform that connects the Lebanese diaspora, matching travelers with people who need something carried. It works in both directions: from abroad into Lebanon, or from Lebanon out to family elsewhere. No couriers are involved and no fees are charged. The people doing the carrying are the same people who were already doing it informally, only now they are easier to find.
How a Trip Becomes a Match
The mechanics are deliberately simple. A traveler posts a trip. Someone with something to send posts a request. Wasleh matches the two when they are on the same route, and the pair coordinates inside the app instead of across four separate chat threads.
Handing the package over is the part where informal arrangements usually get awkward, and it is the part the app was designed around. Each exchange is confirmed with a security check and a QR scan, so both people have a record that the item moved from one pair of hands to the other.
Seven Years Abroad and the Same Message Every Week
Gisele Makary founded Wasleh in 2026, after seven years of living outside Lebanon. She was not studying the problem from a distance. She was sending that message herself, and watching it appear in group chats and Instagram stories across friends and family in the diaspora, with no reliable way to answer it beyond luck and timing.
What existed already worked, in a sense. It was just chaotic and slow, and it depended on knowing the right person at the right moment. Makary's argument is that a community already doing this work for each other deserved better tools for it.
Five Countries, One Week Old
Wasleh launched this week and is live across Lebanon, the UAE, Spain, France and the UK. In its first 24 hours, the platform drew more than 100 visitors. The company is headquartered in Barcelona.
For a product with no fees, no couriers and no logistics fleet behind it, the asset is the network itself: how many Lebanese travelers are flying a given route in a given week, and how many of them are willing to make room in a suitcase.
"'Does anyone know someone flying from or to Lebanon this week?' That message somehow means someone's trying to hold onto home," Makary says. "I built Wasleh so our community didn't have to rely on luck for something that matters this much. Because we deserve better, even if miles away."
Post a trip or a request at Wasleh.
