01 Jul 2008
Our friends at the Al Shurooq School for the Blind in Bethlehem are looking for qualified volunteer staff. We are circulating this appeal to friends in the hope that you may know of an individual or organisation that could help.
Do you know somebody who could help?
Do you have contacts with any local organisations working with the blind and visually impaired?
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09 Jun 2008
The McCabe Educational Trust in partnership with McCabe Pilgrimages have adopted a major project to mark the Passion Play of 2010. We are going to help complete a brand new LAZARUS HOME FOR GIRLS. The project will benefit 50 homeless and orphaned Palestinian girls from villages around Bethany.
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09 May 2008
Music Therapy in Bethlehem is a new and innovative programme being funded jointly by the McCabe Educational Trust and the Diocese of Rochester. The key players are Claire Tillotson a music therapist from Bromley, a Palestinian social worker from Bethlehem, and Canon Paul Miller a vicar in the diocese. We are enormously grateful to Bishop Michael Nazir Ali for choosing this project for his Christmas appeal. £18,500 has now been raised towards our project target of £30,000.
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02 Apr 2008
“We thank the parishioners and friends of Canon Tony Ross of Coln St Aldwyns, Hatherop, Eastleach, Quenington and Southrop in the Diocese of Gloucester, who have raised the magnificent sum of £30,000 over eleven years for the Jeel al-Amal Boys' Home in Bethany, culminating in a series of converts over Lent which brought in an additional £8,000
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03 Mar 2008
Barbara Shrubsole, a pilgrim from Bath, recently visited Jeel al Amal Boys Home in Bethany on a McCabe pilgrimage. As a long-time supporter of Portsmouth FC, she was ‘upset’ to hear the boys talking mainly about Manchester United and Chelsea and thought she would address this problem!
To find out what she has done about this matter click here
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30 Jan 2008
Music Therapy in Bethlehem is a new and innovative programme being funded jointly by the McCabe Educational Trust and the Diocese of Rochester. The key players are Claire Tillotson a music therapist from Bromley and Canon Paul Miller a vicar in the diocese. We are enormously grateful to Bishop Michael Nazir Ali for choosing this project for his Christmas appeal. To date almost £12,000 has been raised, which together with funding from the Trust has given a very positive start to the project.
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08 Jan 2008
We are grateful to all of our supporters who contributed the magnificent sum of £143,800
in support our featured projects during 2007.
Your donations are making a real difference to so many children.
With your help, we will continue helping those in need we encounter on our travels.
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07 Dec 2007
As Christmas approaches our thoughts are with friends in Bethlehem, especially Helen and the children at the Al Shurooq School for the Blind and her brother Edmund and his staff at the Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation.
Last month was a record breaking month for the Trust and your donations are making a real difference to the lives of our friends in Bethlehem.
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29 Nov 2007
Two men from Stormont in East Belfast recently undertook a sponsored walk of 150 miles, and raised £11,000 for Jeel al-Amal and the Lazarus Home.
The Revd David Humphries, Rector of Stormont, is a regular tour leader to the Holy Land, and in recent years has developed a good working relationship with McCabe Pilgrimages. His good friend David Davies accompanied him on this year’s pilgrimage and visited the orphanages for the first time. Moved by what they experienced, the two Davids decided to embark on the walk, which they named the “Jeel 150”, and they caught the interest and imagination of their fellow parishioners.
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14 May 2007
McCabe have just adopted 50 boys! The McCabe family have a history of missionary service in India dating back to 1921. The Revd Andrew McCabe continues the family tradition and was awarded the MBE for his work among the poor and needy. One of Andrew’s long-standing commitments is to 200 orphans at the Anand Niwas Boys Home near Lucknow. The home is struggling financially and the number of boys arriving is increasing. We are delighted to help. Our initial commitment will care for 50 boys and our ambition is to increase this number to 100. We have a vision at McCabe of making a difference in the countries we visit.
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26 Feb 2007
The sounds of drums and Palestinian music are filling the air of Bethany as the girls of the Lazarus Home perform a folkore dance, so beautifully dressed that they look exactly like the flowers that came out of the seed which was planted ten years ago to start our Home. Today we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Lazarus Home.
Our festivities are introduced by the 8 year old Samah who gives a speech in Arabic thanking our guests, the social welfare office and her teachers at the school. Everybody is amazed at her reading. 10 year old Nadia also gives a wonderful speech.
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24 Feb 2007
The choir of Dr Graham’s Homes in Kalimpong are touring Britain in April and we are very proud of the fact that Jason Shillong, one of our two sponsored boys at the homes will be with them (pictured are Jason on the left and Bruno Salvador meeting the Revd Bob Jackson, our chairman, on a recent McCabe visit). Bob and McCabe staff will be attending the opening concert in St. Paul’s Church Covent Garden in London on Thursday April 12 at 7.30pm. This is an invitation to come and join us.
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