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Record donations in excess of
2.5 million pounds enabled BibleLands to increase its
support to those in desperate need in the Middle East in the
last financial year. An extra £500,000 was made available to
BibleLands’ projects tackling major issues such as
community development, education, training and health
provision in Egypt, Lebanon and Israel and the Occupied
Territories.
Director of the Charity, Nigel
Edward-Few said: “This is great news for BibleLands and
for the projects that we support. Although we expected the
crisis in Lebanon last summer to generate increased donations,
there has been an increase in giving across the whole year
which has enabled us to do so much more through our Middle
Eastern partners. As always, the generosity of our supporters
has far exceeded our expectations – a very big thank you goes
to them all.”
BibleLands regularly
supports 50 projects in the Middle East. Among those who
benefited from the Charity’s funding last year were more than
1,700 homeless refugees of the crisis in Lebanon, who received
emergency food and shelter during their terrifying experience.
Others included the inhabitants of two rural villages in Upper
Egypt, where BibleLands is funding 558 new homes for
those currently living in dangerous and disease-ridden
conditions. In Bethany, near Bethlehem, BibleLands
covered the basic running costs, staff salaries and urgently
needed new equipment at a care home, unique in the West Bank,
that totally relies on donations. It provides care and a
quality of life for 90 children and adults with disabilities
who would otherwise not receive the treatment they so
desperately need.
For further information on
BibleLands work, including how to get involved or make
a donation, please go to
www.biblelands.org.uk
Alison MacTier
Tel: 01494
897908
alison.mactier@biblelands.org.uk
NOTES TO EDITORS:
BibleLands
Founded by the Rev Cuthbert
Young in 1854 to support the work of American missionaries
serving a distressed and vulnerable Armenian population, BibleLands
is a non-denominational Christian charity that now works in
partnership with some 50 local Christian-led projects in the
lands of the Bible – primarily Israel and the Occupied
Territories, Egypt and Lebanon, in the fields of Education;
Social Care; Special Needs; Medical Care; Vocational and Adult
Training; Support and Care of Refugees.
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