| Project Love |
The MIR Center of Arizona’s 'Project Love' began in September of
1992, at the height of the war of independence in the former
Yugoslavia. A small group of Marian Travel Service pilgrims visited
the devastated village of Miljkovici, about six miles form Medjugorje
and saw firsthand the needs of the war victims. In the months and
years that followed, and to the present time, Project Love has aided
refugees, widows and orphans, families in need of financial
assistance, convents, and monasteries and churches in the
surrounding areas of Medjugorje. Project Love delivered your
monetary donations, blankets, clothes, toys, school supplies, hospital
equipment, drugs and medicines, and tons of love and prayers!
Since 1992 you have been generous and compassionate and you
will never be forgotten. You have no idea how much joy you have
brought to so many people. Ponder this: $50 gave a poor mother
hope because thousands of miles away someone cared about her
children. How can you measure the good that could come from such
an act of mercy? Think about the joy and inexpensive toy, stuffed
teddy bear, or candy cane brought to a child. Will that child ever
forget? And the hungry - as they asked Our Lord to bless their food
- will they not ask him to also bless those who provided it? The
Franciscans, whose churches and convents you rebuilt, remember
you in their daily masses and prayers.
On our pilgrimage to Medjugorje last June, we visited Mother’s
Village, the orphanage founded by Father Slavko Barbaric, OFM.
The orphanage consists of eight individual homes staffed by
Franciscan Sisters of Medjugorje. Although each home has a
clothes washer, none of them had the “luxury” of a clothes dryer.
About $4000 was needed to buy eight good dryers. We started a
drive to raise the money and, as always, so many of you generously
contributed.
The war ended some time ago, but the need continues. The
unemployment rate is almost 25%! There are still children in the
orphanages, young families growing up without their fathers, and
homes that need repairs. Specific medications are not always
available, and, if they are, the price is prohibitive. With monetary
resources we could support these orphanages, buy materials for
home repairs, and deliver live saving prescriptions.
During our last conference there was only one collection, which took
place at Sunday Mass, every penny of which went to Project Love.
We depend on your donations to keep this mission alive. We offer
out prayers for all those who so generously support this cause with
your donations - you are the love in Project Love!
1992, at the height of the war of independence in the former
Yugoslavia. A small group of Marian Travel Service pilgrims visited
the devastated village of Miljkovici, about six miles form Medjugorje
and saw firsthand the needs of the war victims. In the months and
years that followed, and to the present time, Project Love has aided
refugees, widows and orphans, families in need of financial
assistance, convents, and monasteries and churches in the
surrounding areas of Medjugorje. Project Love delivered your
monetary donations, blankets, clothes, toys, school supplies, hospital
equipment, drugs and medicines, and tons of love and prayers!
Since 1992 you have been generous and compassionate and you
will never be forgotten. You have no idea how much joy you have
brought to so many people. Ponder this: $50 gave a poor mother
hope because thousands of miles away someone cared about her
children. How can you measure the good that could come from such
an act of mercy? Think about the joy and inexpensive toy, stuffed
teddy bear, or candy cane brought to a child. Will that child ever
forget? And the hungry - as they asked Our Lord to bless their food
- will they not ask him to also bless those who provided it? The
Franciscans, whose churches and convents you rebuilt, remember
you in their daily masses and prayers.
On our pilgrimage to Medjugorje last June, we visited Mother’s
Village, the orphanage founded by Father Slavko Barbaric, OFM.
The orphanage consists of eight individual homes staffed by
Franciscan Sisters of Medjugorje. Although each home has a
clothes washer, none of them had the “luxury” of a clothes dryer.
About $4000 was needed to buy eight good dryers. We started a
drive to raise the money and, as always, so many of you generously
contributed.
The war ended some time ago, but the need continues. The
unemployment rate is almost 25%! There are still children in the
orphanages, young families growing up without their fathers, and
homes that need repairs. Specific medications are not always
available, and, if they are, the price is prohibitive. With monetary
resources we could support these orphanages, buy materials for
home repairs, and deliver live saving prescriptions.
During our last conference there was only one collection, which took
place at Sunday Mass, every penny of which went to Project Love.
We depend on your donations to keep this mission alive. We offer
out prayers for all those who so generously support this cause with
your donations - you are the love in Project Love!
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Project Love
c/o Helen Zec
13323 Castle Rock Drive
Sun City West, AZ 85375
Checks payable to:
Project Love
Mother's Village Orphanage
www.mothersvillage.org
c/o Helen Zec
13323 Castle Rock Drive
Sun City West, AZ 85375
Checks payable to:
Project Love
Mother's Village Orphanage
www.mothersvillage.org
