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Give Hope To The Children
IonWays generously donates to Healing Bridges. Last year we made an appeal to our associates to raise funds for the women and children in the refugee camps in Eastern Sudan. With matching funds we were able to raise donations in excess of $12,000.
Healing Bridges (HB) is a 501C3 non-profit organization dedicated to making a difference! Zebiba Shekhia, founder of Healing Bridges, was born and raised in the civil war torn East African country of Eritrea. There are over 500,000 Eritrean refugees in Eastern Sudan; most are women and children. The UN calls them the Forgotten Refugees. The camps have been there for over 40 years. Fleeing as a refugee herself Zebiba resolved to one day make a difference.
Help us give them hope -
www.Water4HealingBridges.org
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This year we are committed to building a water system for the First High School for Girls in a refugee camp in Eastern Sudan. The children of the camps are only provided education up to the eighth grade. Most of the children are high school age girls. Healing Bridges commitment is to give the girls in the camp the necessary tools to break the cycle of poverty and provide them an opportunity for a better life. Healing Bridges has broken ground on the first high school in the Shargarab Refugee Camp and now needs $18,000 to build the water system for the school. Because the High School is in the center of the refugee camps, the new water system will provide clean drinking water for the entire camp. Without it there will be no school, no education and no hope. Once the school is open it will accommodate up to 340 girls, with 6 classrooms, 2 bathrooms, a library and 2 administrative offices.
In addition to the building of the school, HB also supports two primary schools, in the town of Kassala and provides them with supplies, classroom chairs, and desks. They also supply water storage tanks for both schools, as well as ensure clean drinking water for the children.
In the middle of the dry desert Healing Bridges is a well spring of hope, that the children can be empowered through education to change themselves and change the course of their people. Join us in helping Healing Bridges make a difference!
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