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AGE
03
Finding hope:
Eli Kay
Writer
Looking through a sea of comments
and news reports about the economic
recession and how that has taken a toll
in the social and business environment
in Europe. I struggle to find encouraging
articles.
It seems that the idea in today’s
community is “every man for himself,”
and we all tend to think that way. But
fortunately I found some people that
don’t.
Global Hope Network International
is an organization dedicated to visiting
hidden villages where some of the
world’s poorest people live and where
assistance never reaches.
Their mission is to transform those
places by providing health care, coach
them to develop the area with their
resources and bring targeted Disaster
Relief in places hit by war or natural
disasters.
They bring people closer and ry to
provide a better future with their efforts.
I was invited to volunteer with the
organization’s newest division in
Greece.
Global Hope in collaboration with
AMG International use mobile medical
centres to drive to isolated villages
where old Muslim communities live.
Communities like The Pomaklar, a
Greek/Muslim community at the north
of Greece, that was isolated during the
war and left away from civilization ae
able to receive help.
The women were forced to cultivate
the land in order to eat, while their
husbands found work in Albania,
Bulgaria or Germany, leaving the
women to care for the children.
The Saturday I volunteered, we left at
5am in order to meet with the group.
The group included a leader, me and a
dentist, all volunteers.
The leader was driving the mobile
medical centre and was in charge of
the relationship with the people in the
villages.
I would help the dentist sterilize her
equipment and keep a list of the people
who visited for dental check.
It was raining heavily all morning but
the people still lined up outside the van.
The people wanted to meet us and
talk to us. It is wonderful to see how
simple life makes people nicer and more
compassionate.
After the experience, I was very
happy I saw the another side to Europe.
A selfless and compassionate one.
I wish the whole world was like that.
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