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Gifts from Switzerland for Dhadim
by Laurens de Bever
During our two visits to Ethiopia, we took two times four big suit cases full of clothes, play things and school materials that we had been collecting from friends, neighbours and colleagues. Philly managed both times to make maximum use of the weight restrictions of the airlines (23 kg for each piece of luggage, i.e. 92 kg in total for each visit). The goods are extremely welcome and useful. Their distribution and usage is coordinated by the Fathers and Sisters from the catholic mission in Dhadim. A few examples:
- Sr. Ancia uses the play things and school materials in the Kindergarten
- Sr. Annie uses clothes in the clinic, Sr. Sherly distributes clothes in the field to families that have less than nothing
- Lisa and Sr. Ancia have distributed some of the clothes to the children and youth
- Lisa lends dry clothes to children who had to cross rivers in order to reach the Kindergarten during the wet season
- Fr. Boniface gives clothes to the youth as a reward for doing some work for him
- et cetera…
In the name of all the children from the Kindergarten, six year old Roba Damballa created a video message to say thank you to all people who have contributed. Boniface and the sisters have asked us to explicitly forward this to everybody who was involved. So thank you
- Martina, Roland and Louis Moritz
- Lara
- Wim and Els Brooymans (Lisa's grand parents)
- Fränzi, Reini and Alessandro
- Peter, Janet and Marc
- Patrizia and Jennifer
- Sabine, Jeroen and children
- Caroline
- Patrizia and children
- Christian, Gabi and children
- Manuela
- Günther, Martina and children
- Beate
- Katharina, Marc and children
- Pascal - Daniela and Kurt
- Evelyne, Iain and Timothy
- Matthias and family
- and of course Philly for the coordination.
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