21 March 2021
CommunitySome projects supported by Operation HopeDuring 2020 and 2021, Operation Hope is supporting a project of the Nazareth Home in Vientiane, Laos. The initiative for this project came from a community of Laotian sisters who wanted to give a future to young girls from poor families, including ethnic minorities. In Laos, sewing remains a field that opens up job opportunities. Since 2017, these sisters have developed a sewing course. The (...)
21 March 2021
CommunitySome projects supported by Operation HopeOperation Hope has recently supported several initiatives in this region:
The crises facing Lebanon, including economic decline, Covid-19, and the impact of the devastating explosion in Beirut on 4 August 2020, have brought stress and trauma to children. The closure of schools due to Covid-19 and the damage caused by the blast have resulted in a sharp decline in the quality of education. In Beirut, through the Adyan Foundation (a Lebanese organisation founded by Christian and Muslim members), Operation Hope helped to support children with (...)
11 January 2021
CommunitySome projects supported by Operation HopeFrom 2008 until 2020, Operation Espérance supported a hospital for the sick created by the parish of the Infant Jesus in Boeng Tumpun, Cambodia. To meet the needs of poor villagers from the different provinces of the country, the parish launched this project which promotes the dignity of the sick and provides them with the necessary care. Proximity to the capital, Phnom Penh, facilitates access to hospitals if necessary. The donations make it possible to contribute to the costs of hospitalization and also to finance the center itself, the (...)
11 January 2021
CommunitySome projects supported by Operation HopeThrough the Taizé brothers living in Bangladesh, Operation Hope is giving financial support to students, especially those from ethnic minorities – Garos, Bawn, Mandai, and Santal. Among the Garos, some fifteen College students form a Youth Association called Mikrakbo (“Wake up!”), which is active in the Church and in youth development among young Christians of the area. These students also benefit from a stipend, which makes it possible for them to give time to this kind of ministry. In addition to this, fifteen High School students are living (...)
11 January 2021
CommunitySome projects supported by Operation HopeFrom the beginning, the Taizé Community has always been attentive to refugees. During the Second World War, Brother Roger had hidden a number of them in his house at Taizé. Later on families were welcomed, from places like Vietnam, Laos, Bosnia and Rwanda. In recent years, the community has welcomed families from Iraq and Syria, as well as groups of young migrants from Calais.
In 2016, young asylum-seekers from Sudan, South Sudan, Eritrea, Syria and Afghanistan stayed in Taizé. This welcome was made possible thanks to the collaboration of (...)
11 January 2021
CommunitySome projects supported by Operation HopeIn a village 25 km. south of Rumbek, some fifty families of lepers live; they have come from the entire Great Lakes region. Although medical treatment heals the disease and removes all danger of contagion, the loss of limbs sometimes remains a great handicap. The social stigma continues to affect them. The lepers cannot stay in their place of origin. Their children, even if they themselves have not been touched by the disease, are not welcome in school. The courage and hope of these families who have started a new life from scratch in (...)
11 January 2021
CommunitySome projects supported by Operation HopeAt the European meeting which brought together 40,000 young people in Brussels at the end of 2008, Brother Alois announced that, to respond to the needs of the Christians of China, the Taizé Community was going to have printed one million Bibles in China—200,000 complete Bibles and 800,000 New Testaments with Psalms. The printing was done in Nanjing, and from there the books were delivered across the country in successive stages throughout 2009.
In 2009, the Taizé Community is also supporting the biblical work of the Protestant Church in (...)
11 January 2021
CommunitySome projects supported by Operation HopeIn 2016, the Community invited two doctors from the Hospital of the Red Cross of North Korea to do a refresher course in France. These doctors spent three months in Paris and the costs of their stay were borne entirely by Operation Hope. Between 2007 and 2011, six other doctors had also done a one-year internship in France.
The first humanitarian deliveries to this country were made in 1998 and 1999. More than one thousand tons of maize flour were sent for the population who were suffering after several years of drought and flooding. (...)
11 January 2021
CommunitySome projects supported by Operation HopeDr. Richard Hardi has been living and working in the Democratic Republic of Congo for twenty years as an ophthalmologist. He is a committed member of the Community of the Beatitudes. He practices in Mbuji Mayi, the capital of East Kasai province, but he makes regular medical missions in remote areas.
In much of the country, he is virtually the only ophthalmologist who operates on children (...)
11 January 2021
CommunitySome projects supported by Operation HopeBurkina Faso is situated in the Sahel where the dry season lasts nine months without interruption. The population uses open wells that often dry up and the women are forced to use unhealthy water collected in artificial ponds during the rainy season. Sometimes they have to go as far as ten kilometres in order to find water and the rare wells that do exist become a source of conflict because of the scarcity of water and the long time they have to wait. Operation Hope supports the drilling of wells and the installation of pumps. These wells (...)