January visit the 10th. and the 11th. 2023
Sr. Frantiska and Sr. Susan went down as Fr. George couldn’t join us this time due to other commitments. Sabah met us at the border and we started our day with a visit to Fawyseh’s school in the north. The children were busy either eating in turns outside as it was warm out. Others were learning their letters or numbers inside and one class was doing exercises to music. We found everything clean and orderly and serving a nice meal of macaroni and meat.
Following we visited three very poor homes in the same area. I had just rained and there was wet sand everywhere even inside as the floors were of sand in several homes. Two home were tents. The government will not allow them to build a concrete block house as the property belongs to the government. We help these families by seeing that they get a bag of food from time to time.
After we went to a place near the beach where the heads of the school met for a meeting and they provided us all with a meal after. Again being it a warm day we could sit outside at simple tables. We went straight to the Missionaries of Charity in the late afternoon. They have a new superior who we know from her being there seven years earlier. We had a warm welcome as usual. We also visited with Fr. Gabriel after Mass.
The following day we needed to go to the bank. After this we went to our office and discussed with our two ladies the current situation. The children will be on semester break now for two weeks. We will replace the bathroom in the new school which is in a bad condition with a new one. The homes in the Musaddar area that we visited last time we will renovate as it is in a terrible condition en general. Ramadan will be coming, so our team will meet in Jerusalem in February to decide how we can give extra food to families. Now we are feeding 100 a month. We left that afternoon being pleased with the two days and being very grateful to our benefactors.
