Dear Friends : This morning at 6am some of our new Friends Meeting House collapsed. As you may know we have been pushed out of our old meeting house in Al Jiftlik to Fasayil after the split in Jordan Valley Solidarity. Here in Fasayil we have been given an old mud brick house, which was built before 1967 more than 60 years ago. The house has been in a bad condition from when we moved in and we have started repairing and rebuilding some of it but have also been waiting for funding. Last night after heavy rain our basement got flooded which weakened some of the structure. As a result, this morning some of the basement walls collapsed leaving big racks in the upsairs rooms as well as destroying some of the walls in the second level. This has made it impossible and dangerous to live in more than half of the house. Currently we have no access to the shower, toillet or kitchen. We still have one room left upstairs and the terrace as well as some of the downstairs rooms which also need renovating before we are able to use them. We will be demolishing some of the house that is destroyed and rebuilding it with mud bricks. As you know we we are currently circulating a petition to reclaim our old meeting house in Al Jiftlik as it is not being used for its intendet purpose. We are hoping to get the old Friends meeting house back but meanwile need to renovate the house in Fasaiyl which we will be able to use as a second meeting house in the south of the Jordan Valley if we do get back our old houe in Al Jiftlik. We ask you as our friends an supporters to donate as much or little as possible so we can start working to rebuild our Friends Meeting House and continue with our campaign.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 11:55:28 +0000
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