Visit February 2023

 

February 2023

We had a meeting to discuss several new events on Monday the 6^th. and on Tuesday three of us went down to Gaza. Despite rain wind and cold, we were able to do a lot with Sabah and Wasel. The first day we started out by visiting the new school where we had just had an old bathroom taken down and a new one built. The children were not there due to the weather as the two days the schools were all closed. Secondly, we visited a family in the middle camps area whose home we had begun to renovate. Most of the family was present. Three of the youngest children had bear feet.  We couldn’t resist giving money to Sabah to see that these three got new shoes. All the children were handicapped mentally.

After we went to our office to discuss the issues covered at our meeting. Our social worker’s kitchen roof fell in so she asked for her indemnities early and we saw that she received them. She has two daughters at University and she lost her husband two months ago. Our ladies who work for us encouraged us to start a program for the elderly as there is a great need for many of them to receive shampoo, hygiene materials, and diapers. For now, we haven’t the funding to do it. Perhaps in the future, we can. We decided that we can give a bag of food to 200 families for Ramadan in March.

On the second day, we started out by going to the bank to get some information. After we visited the distribution of the medicines that we give out monthly. We saw about five of the 45 who received their medications at a pharmacy that day. Following we went to the middle camps area of the Musaddar School as there were 100 families receiving their 14 items of food and two soaps that month. Each month we serve another area and other families. Winter shows so vividly the poverty of the families who came for their food. Many looked very hungry and thin. Some came with donkeys and carts and collected food for their neighbors also. That was our experiences this last trip down.

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