Fr. Stan and I joined Sabah and Wasel and our first stop in Gaza was at the El Arabia School where the children were busy learning their letters and some were coloring air-planes. They were eating apples. The kitchen there is very small and needs to be separated from the bathroom area. This will be studied to see if we can make this renovation.
We made some home visits and several of the families had no
flooring, only sand under straw mats on the floor. They had only one foset and
no running water for the bathroom. Some of the family members needed medicines
and the papers for this was given to Sabah. One large family are ordered to
leave their home, as they can’t pay the rent. They have no place to go. Sabah
will try to help them with this. One family we know well has four handicapped
women ages 25 to 45 and the mother who cared for them now has Alzheimer’s
herself and needs care. A woman helps them during the day yet they need a
person for the night as one of these women gets up and is aggressive toward the
others in the night. We went home wondering how we can meet the needs of these
families.
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