In our continuing effort to relieve the suffering of the thousands of refugees that are crossing through southern Europe from the Mideast and Africa in an attempt to enter the EU, we have had the opportunity to volunteer with a Slovenian charity that is helping to run a refugee transit center that can hold up to 5,000 refugees at one time.
Healing Hearts Balkans has initiated several programs whereby we are able to both give physical assistance and humanitarian aid where possible, as well as provide motivational training programs in refugee centers …
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To view the latest news from our Healing Hearts Balkans charity, please click on the title to access the full article. To request a .pdf version of our Healing Hearts Balkans Fall 2014 Newsletter, click the “Contact” tab in the menu above or write us at: info@healingheartsbalkans.org
Urgent! Serbia has been devastated by the recent floods and the people need seeds to re-plant their gardens while there is still time. Many have lost everything and are re-building from scratch. Can you help a poor Serbian family trying to recover from their devastating loss to re-plant their garden?
In recent months we have been busy distributing donated sets of Lego© and Duplo© to needy institutions in various countries…we would like to thank the Lego Foundation in Billund, Denmark, for their very generous contribution and help towards this charitable initiative.
After a safe drive down from Scandinavia with a van full of humanitarian aid, we have begun the distribution by visiting Kosovo, a province that is still suffering in the aftermath of political and ethnic turmoil, and wallows in an uncertain limbo regarding its future status. We also have deliveries scheduled for Albania, Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Poland and Serbia.
When the Christmas “shoe box” gift packages come to Serbia, there are literally thousands that need to be distributed all across northern Serbia. With schools closed for 2 weeks for winter holidays, that means the distribution usually stretches out through a good part of January…
Roma children are not used to receiving gifts at Christmas, or at any other time of the year for that matter. It’s a hard fact of their young lives that standards are low, life is hard, and if there’s ever any money around, it will go to buy food. How wonderfully satisfying was it then for us to be able to be a blessing and the hands of Jesus during this Christmas season by bringing the children Christmas “shoe box” gift packages…
We had been talking to two of our friends about how we were helping the poor Roma settlement near to us and how we had recently brought them a donated generator so they could have electricity in the evenings, since the isolated area where they are living does not have running water or electricity. The young couple, who are not so well off themselves, said they wanted to donate to them some warm bedding and other things for the winter…
