St. Vincent News

06 September 2009

A warm wellcome to:

Tamara, Monique and Angi!

04 September 2009

Bye to Egle! Bye to Nadera! Bye also to Yousef!

Thanks Egle for all your good work - hope to see you again soon!

Nice meeting you Nadera and hope to see you one day soon! Imad sends special greetings!

Yousef - thanks for all your special work you did with the children - hope to see you again!

03 September 2009

Wellcome to Lukas!

SEE YOU NEXT WEEK!

More congratulations!

Congratulations to Anna-Lena on the birth of your son, Malik. May you have lots of joy from him!

Also congratulations to Benedicte on his marriage!

Packing time is fun!

As we packed away the 'Summer Fun' corner, the children helped us take the air out of the blowen up plastic dolphins. The dolphins joined in the fun by making a real dolphin squeak! The kids loved it!

02 September 2009

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Soraya on the opening of our new St Vincent workshop! Keep up the good work..............the kids are having a great time.........dog therapy, story time, snoezelen, jakuzzi etc etc

Congratulations to Johnny and his wife on the birth of their little son - may you have lots of joy from him!

The end of the Summer programme

A reminder of the good old days......................

Dining on the volunteer's rooftop!!!!

Well, as they say - all good things come to an end...
Our great summer programme has ended, and on the 1st of September our children went back to school and to the regular afternoon activities.

Most of our group of volunteers have left, and only a few still remain here [thanks to Andi, Celia, Johannes, Marie Teresia, Johanna, Claudia, Katherina, Hanneka, Elisa, Nina, Yussef, Agnese and of course all the regular workers! and anyone else we left out of the list!]

But, good news!
Mara, Pegah, Kristine, Johannes.M, Mirjam, Josef, Mascha, Elke and a few more coming make up our new Volunteer team - wellcome to you all and hope you have a great time with us!!!!!!!

A bit of history...

1633 France - 1848 Middle East - 1964 Ein Kerem

St. Vincent's heart was captured by the poor, when France was being revaged by epidemics and war. He began to serve them and was eventually asked to organize their care on the national level. He founded many international organizations, best known are the Priest of the Mission and the Daughters of Charity. He was the inspiration behind the founding of the St. Vincent DePaul Society.

Five Daugthers of Charity are full-time staff and resident. Their international organisation originated in France in 1633. They have worked in the Middle East 150 years and in Israel since 1886, so they have a long history of service to the disadvantaged.

Condolensces

The House of St Vincent mourns for the loss of one of our founders, a great woman of our time, Sister Josephine.
see above 18th August.

To our dear Chiara and Guiseppe
We are sorry to hear about the passing away of Chiara's Mother. We are all thinking of you and comfort you in your sad loss.

We heard of the sad news that Thomas's Father passed away sudddenly.We are with you Thomas in our thoughts and prayers, even though we are far away, you are still very much in our hearts.May you and your family be comforted.

We deeply regret to announce the sad tragic passing away of the son of Robert, the head of the Physiotherapy/Para-medic department in St Vincents, Ein Kerem. We all express our condolensces to Robert and all his family. May the Lord comfort you all in these hard times.