Our special project for 2004
THE NAZARETH SCHOOL OF NURSING
The Nazareth Hospital was founded by Edinburgh-trained Dr Valoost Vartan in 1854 - the only hospital between Beirut and Jerusalem at the time. Nurse training at the hospital began in 1924; the school is the only nursing school available to the Arab community in the whole of Israel.
In addition to training nurses, it provides local community training in first aid, parenting skills and health education to many institutions. The School is a beacon of healing and hope in Arab communities across the whole of Galilee.
In order to accommodate the number of students now requesting training, a new School of Nursing is being built this year. This is great news of course, but the cost will be great.
We have promised to help!
What the new school of nursing will need:
Four 100 sq metre
classrooms
Conference room
Nursing skills training laboratory
Computer skills laboratory
Staff and administration offices
Student study rooms/student common room
Kitchen facilities and storage areas
Reception area/toilet and bath facilities
Dr Amal Merizian Khazin,
Director of nursing education at the school, says he would greatly appreciate
help with an computer projector (£3714), overhead projectors (£1428),
air-conditioning system (£4285), and a Bedford nurse training doll (£3714).
We hope to raise enough money to pay for the computer projector.
Will you help? Maybe, if you are kind and very generous we could pay for the doll as well!
(To those who kindly donated to our special project in 2003 - the Lazarus Home
for Girls - a very big thank you! We were able to send £7040.)
THE
TRUST
supports
the indigenous Christian community of Jerusalem every Christmas with gifts of
food parcels and assistance with school fees. Many Christians in the Holy Land
feel isolated and under pressure, and our gifts are a practical way for pilgrims
to show their concern.
THE
TRUST
has
provided essential playground equipment for the Sunshine School in Jerusalem,
and also provided the salary of a teacher for three years.
THE
TRUST
sponsors
six children: two in the Holy Land and four in India. We correspond regularly
and receive letters from them and reports on their progress.
THE TRUST, through its ‘Project Sinai’ has in past years made it possible for disadvantaged young people to spend an adventure and character building holiday trekking with the Bedouin in the Sinai Desert.
THE TRUST receives and passes on donations from well-wishers in the UK to special projects in the Holy Land, especially to:
The Lazarus home for Girls
The
Jeel Al-Amal School
The
Peace Centre for the Blind
The Al-Shurooq Centre for the Blind
The
Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation
The Bedo
The Dr Graham's Homes, Kalimpong, India
The Talitha Cumi School, Joppa
£15,600 was sent to
the above projects in 2003.
THE TRUST has a Resource Centre with a library of over 1,500 books, slides, tapes and videos available on free loan to anyone who wishes to learn more about the Middle East. The Library has special collections of books about Lawrence of Arabia, Pilgrims of the Past, and Oberammergau and its Passion Play. Also available - documentaries you may have missed covering Middle East history, archaeology and exploration.
THE
TRUST sells travel guides, videos
and slide sets, profits given to help its projects. There are over 75 special
fact sheets on subjects of special interest to Holy Land travellers i.e. the
Jerusalem Cross, Churches of Antonio Barluzzi, the Druze, Syrian Orthodox
Christians.
THE TRUST issues a monthly ‘Briefing’ which gives up-to-date information about the work of the Trust, provides details of recent acquisitions in the library, reviews new books, publishes information from our friends in the Middle East, and provides extracts from relevant publications.
THE
TRUST
has low
administration costs because McCabe Pilgrimages kindly provide office space
and other
facilities. Voluntary helpers provide
secretarial and accounting
expertise.
THE TRUST has always received generous support from McCabe Pilgrimages and Jasmin Tours
Company Limited by
CANON lAIN PATON (Chairman)
THE REVD BOB
JACKSON has taken many groups to the
Middle East. India and Peru. He takes a special interest in a school in Nepal,
where the Trust sponsors two children.
CANON GEOFFREY MARSHALL Has led many tours to the Middle East, He is currently compiling a devotional guide for tour leaders to be published by the Trust. His daughter, Sarah, was sponsored by the Trust when she worked in Israel and Palestine during her university vacations.
CANON PETER
NICHOLSON deals with the day-to-day
work of the Trust at its offices at Balham Hill, giving his services on Tuesdays
and Thursdays to the Resource Centre and also works from home. He was formerly
General Secretary of St. Luke’s Hospital for the Clergy.