You are currently browsing the daily archive for August 3rd, 2006.

It’s now 8 15 PM. A tyring day. I hadn’t mentioned this morning that last night we did not sleep after 2 AM. Then the bombing on Beirut suburbs began again.
Today 2 meetings: one at the municipality with the coordination committee. It is so important to well coordinate the relief aid.

The other meeting was with all NGO’s working with children at schools. As we’re entertaining our kids, Ayadina was invited and we listened to the NGO’s present, exchanging experiences. Then of course we had bags to fill at Ayadina because tomorrow there’s another big distribution. Many volunteers and hundreds of bags and food parcels…

I just heard on the news that the population of the outskirts of Beirut has received leaflets telling them to leave. This means another sleepless night because air raids will occur

Hamadeh is a boy of 14 years old. when we gave paper to the kids and asked them to draw whatever they liked, Hamadeh drew or rather wrote in drawing the following words: always tears -then his name with a bleeding heart- always suffering. This illustrates how kids and youth feel about this war.

Hamadeh drawing