We are proud to present to you the partnership between our center subordinate to the Greek Melkite Catholic Archdiocese of Sidon and Deir El-Qamar and the Archdiocese de Cologne - Allmagne. Through this partnership, the churches of Colognes in Germany are delivering 1000 food parcels to the most vulnerable families of all parishes of Saida and Deir El-Qamar. This program is designed for Lebanese families in need, residents of villages and cities of the Diocese. This project started by preparing all the Data needed, from contacting all our parishes’ priests, fill “Family Forms”, economical study and basic needs to each one, statistics about parishioners, in addition to all documents necessary to begin home visits, without forgetting to contact with Youth organizations in order to preserve cooperation with them.
On Saturday, March 19th, MLC has hosted more than 80 volunteers, members of Youth Christian Students (YCS), National Scouts and Youth of Caritas, from 7:30 AM to 16:30 PM, to prepare these parcels. Furthermore, we decided to cooperate with drivers and helpers from unemployed parishioners, in order to benefit them from this project.We provide the facilities, like ensuring transportation, accessible location and all materials that this project can provide a quality help to parishioners according to their needs. This program is a total of multidisciplinary tasks which includes administrative, social and field work. Moreover, we are very interested this program to engage as many as youth as possible, by preparing a social activity joining youth to help us filling the parcels, as a voluntary activity, especially during the fasting period.We believe that this program can give them an opportunity to meaningful MLC future cooperating activities with all parishes. For -this reason, we are happy to partner with Dioceses and support the work that they're doing with people.This is just the beginning of our long-term partnership with different dioceses, the best is yet to come!
