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Hope and Aid Direct sends aid to Syria

On Friday and Saturday (7^th & 8^th ) December, three Hope and Aid trucks set out to collect loads from various parts of the country for the container that was then loading to go out to refugee camps, field hospitals and displaced persons in war ravaged Syria.  READ THE FULL STORY HERE


Spring 2013 Convoy of aid to Kosovo has been successfully completed

Food and clothes, shoes and toiletries, walking frames and wheelchairs, spectacles and tools……….and the things that you make so lovingly, knitted blankets made up from squares, knitted clowns, used butter dishes filled with toiletries, shoe boxes filled with goodies, exercise books made from recycled paper, and ladies handbags filled with treasures……….
I can't think of a better way to express just how much pleasure all these small but such important gifts bring to the people who we try to help, than to share a poem with you, written after a trip by one of our convoyers, Claire Stevens…….it goes like this…… read the full report


Who Was It?

Who parted with that purple bag? who thought it fit for aid?
The one that clearly cost a fortune, now polished to a fade.
I saw it opened by frail hands, eyes dancing at the gleam.
It could have been the perfume, or it may have been the cream.
For what I saw upon her face, the joy, no money one could pay.
To see the lipstick colour, oh, to feel it on display.
I saw this lady daub her lips, the bag fiercely guarded.
I wish you could have seen her smile, your effort so rewarded!
Whoever gave that purple bag, you made it all so worth it!

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