PWRDF issues Gaza appeal
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article40452
- Author
- Williams, Leigh Anne
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2014 September
- Author
- Williams, Leigh Anne
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2014 September
- Volume
- 140
- Issue
- 7
- Page
- 1, 3
- Notes
- "The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has issued an appeal for Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, which has been responding to the needs of civilians wounded and displaced by the Israeli operations against Palestinian militants in Gaza that began in July [2014]. At press time, more than 1,800 Palestinians and 67 Israelis have been killed in the conflict" (p. 1). "Canon John Organ, a Canadian who is serving in the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem as chaplain to Bishop Suheil Dawani, described the dire situation in Gaza and at the hospital in an interview with the Anglican Journal" (p. 1) on 18 July 2014. "Organ also spoke of the challenges for the hospital, which he said has been running on a 'skeleton budget' since it lost funding that the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees had provided for decades. Since the end of 2012, there has been no major sponsor and the hospital has run on individual contributions, but it cannot provide the care it once did" (p. 1, 3). "PWRDF, the relief and development arm of the Anglican Church of Canada, has sent an initial grant of $25,000 to Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), which has been providing support to the hospital in the form of fuel, medications, medical supplies and psychosocial support for thousands of women and children affected by the offensive" (p. 3).
- Subjects
- Al Ahli Arab Hospital (Gaza)
- Gaza Strip - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) - Grants
- Organ, John, 1956-
- Hospitals - Religious aspects - Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East
- Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East. Diocese of Jerusalem