The second and the third day of Eid Al-Adha dawned windy–one of the most important events in the Muslim calendar both religiously and socially — rainy and cold, but that didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of HCI team in Middle East, assisted by volunteers and local partners, determined to see that the poorest of the poor [...]
Video: HCI Helps Provide a Proper Eid Feast
Adahi, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan & Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Seasonal Projects, Sudan, West Bank
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Dec 172008
Video: Livelihood Support for War-Affected Rural Families in Lebanon
Agriculture, Agriculture and Food, Emergency and Transition, Lebanon, Video
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Dec 032008
The border village Al-Wazani, an underprivileged agricultural village in Southern Lebanon located directly on the Lebanese-Israeli border, was heavily affected by the July-August 2006 war between Lebanon and Israel. In addition to the total destruction of infrastructure, the loss of lives and an economy suffering badly from the recession that followed the war, livestock losses [...]
Besieged Gaza Strip: Vulnerable Gazans Got Food Aid from HCI
Emergency and Transition, Gaza Strip, Palestine
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Dec 012008
Last Monday and Wednesday, HCI dispatched two trucks loaded with humanitarian aid to Gaza Strip to help besieged Gazans survive the deteriorating living conditions. The trucks crossed King Hussein Bridge carrying basic food items. “We seek to help besieged poor Gazans cope with the difficult situation they are currently going through,” HCI coordinator commented as [...]
War, Occupation, Catastrophe, Poverty, Illness
Iraq, Jordan & Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Seasonal Projects, Sudan
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Nov 032008
There are five people sitting in the same dirt-yard. The first is an old man; he is a vegetable peddler. He is aged, and the limbs of his body seem to rage against each other. There is no coordination in his movements, he is ragged, one of his eyes has been put out and the [...]
Nov 032008
Located directly on the Lebanese-Israeli border, the southern village of Marwahin was heavily affected by the July-August 2006 war between Lebanon and Israel. On July 15 2006, a strike on a convoy of civilians fleeing from the village killed twenty-one people, including fourteen children. The tragedy of these poor young people and of their desperate [...]
HCI Expands Badly-Needed Health Services for Displaced Sudanese
Health and Sanitation, Sudan
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Oct 242008
For the past five years, HCI has been working for the well being of the estimated 11,000 internally displaced people of Salama settlement, who have fled the violence in the south and west of their country and now live south of the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. Here they face chronic poverty, both high unemployment and [...]
Livelihood Support for War-Affected Rural Families in Lebanon
Agriculture, Agriculture and Food, Lebanon
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Oct 232008
The border village Al-Wazani, an underprivileged agricultural village in Southern Lebanon located directly on the Lebanese-Israeli border, was heavily affected by the July-August 2006 war between Lebanon and Israel. In addition to the total destruction of infrastructure, the loss of lives and an economy suffering badly from the recession that followed the war, livestock losses [...]
Support for the Neediest Palestinian Olive Farmers in the West Bank
Agriculture and Food, Palestine, West Bank
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Oct 202008
In the West Bank, civilians are cut out from the rest of the world because of the Israeli siege without any supply or support; they are deprived from basic life elements and their rights to live normally, in addition to difficulties they face in receiving support from foreign aid agencies. This obliged many operating aid [...]
Honoring Ramadan Traditions in Sudan, Extending Help to the Poor
Seasonal Projects, Sudan
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Oct 082008
The Holy Month of Ramadan is a time for inner reflection by Muslims, devotion to God, self control, and fasting from sunrise to sunset. It is also a particularly joyous time when relatives and friends invite each other over to gather around a table and break the fast together–Iftar–and above all a time of giving [...]
Oct 082008
“I’m already feeling nervous and it has only been few hours since I arrived. How do those permanently living here feel? How do they manage?” wondered Aminah Kandar, a visiting Board Member from HCI-Canada, during a field visit to Tripoli. Aminah was accompanied by HCI’s local partner CIWS, specifically to the troubled area of Bab [...]
