Saturday, June 30, 2018

Visit May 2018

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End of May visit by Bro. Lorenzo and Sr. Sandra
This visit was for the day only as the schools closed for the summer in mid-May.  Still they went to visit the Musaddar School which is always a center of activity as it serves the whole area. They saw the food distribution for this very poor rural area. For some very poor families they delivered bags of food. The pictures of these families show their story. One very large family who we have known for a long time has been able to build a house to live in as they have always been in a tent. They are a Bedouin family who now numbers 50 people in all. Several sons have married and begun families of their own. 
For those who have been following our activities in Gaza the bank did not close, so we are able to distribute food to 170 families for the next six months. We thank you who have been praying with us so that the bank would not close. 
Politically it was a very difficult month before Ramadan began. Every Friday there were demonstrations, deaths and injuries. Medicines are very scarce, amputations of limbs especially legs are frequent. It has continued despite Ramadan and the political future is very uncertain. Gaza continues to be like a big prison. Egypt opened its border, but Hamas gives only the elderly or sick the permission to leave.


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