Donate to ABOUD

Over two weekends in October 2004 one of us walked the 100 miles plus 'Leicestershire Round' to raise money for Aboud. Proceeds went to three projects. We are continuing to collect funds for the housing project:

Housing Aboud Orthodox Christian Housing Project. The Orthodox Church has donated land for this project.

Currently they have built the shell of the ground floor. The project is at a standstill until they find money to complete the roof of the ground floor. The Pontifical Mission (Vatican) will help with some further funding.

The ground floor will consist of 12 shops to rent out and a large community hall. Income from the ground floor will provide the funds to start on the first floor. The plan is that there will be five floors with 8 flats on each. The flats will be sold for relatively repayments to young Christian and Muslim couples and families. Flats on each floor will generate income towards further construction.

The project also provides employment for villagers.

Steve Bonham from Leicestershire Holy Land Appeal
handing a donation to the Aboud Orthodox Church committee

Please contact Steve 0116 251 0655 if you want information on transferring money directly to the project.

Increasing poverty means that many families can no longer afford to pay school fees and the school is short of funds for maintenance, books and teacher salaries. Payment will be made through a fund established by The Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, St. Ives, Cambridgeshire www.sacredheart-stives.org/info/holyland.html Payments can be made online to their appeal.

The Protestant Church of God in Aboud also have a small school for primary aged children. f you would like to support them finanvially we can pass on their contact details.

Health The Lutheran Augusta Victoria Hospital in Jerusalem www.avh.org , which runs mobile primary health care clinics in a number of West Bank villages including Aboud.

The Greek Orthodox priest has his blood pressure checked at the Lutheran Clinic

Donations can be sent to: The Augusta Victoria Hospital Poor Fund, c/o LWF -Jerusalem, P.O. Box 19178, Jerusalem 91191, Israel./font>