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Belle Isle Dinner in aid of Holy Land Medical Relief Fund
Belle Isle Dinner in aid of Holy Land Medical Relief Fund
The Holy Land Medical Relief Fund emerged as an urgent response to the need
for medical equipment in the Holy Land following three very successful pilgrimages
there from the Diocese of Clogher. Participants saw the need on the ground
and decided to respond. To date almost £70,000 has been raised and
the Neo-natal Unit in St Luke’s Hospital, Nablus has been completely
refurbished and half of the equipment for the Cardiac Clinic in Ramallah
has been purchased.
The Belle Isle Dinner on Friday February 11th 2011, by kind invitation of
the Duke and Duchess of Abercorn, will provide further funds for the purchase
of essential hospital equipment. The Holy Land Medical Relief Fund has been
inspired by a talented and committed group of six people. There are no overheads
and all monies raised go directly to the hospitals in the Holy Land.
Commenting on the dinner, the Bishop of Clogher the Rt Revd Dr Michael Jackson
said: “I am most grateful to the people who have worked so hard and
been so generous to the Holy Land Medical Relief Fund right across the community
and the Diocese of Clogher. Such selflessness is all the more impressive
when I consider the harsh economic times through which we are living at home.
Indeed this sort of willingness to think ahead and to think about others
whose need is much more pressing than our own is a tremendous inspiration
and testimony to human goodness. From first-hand experience I know that the
people of the Holy Land are overjoyed at what we have been able to do in
partnership with them. My personal thanks go to the Duke and Duchess of Abercorn
for taking this cause to their heart and for opening Belle Isle so graciously
and hospitably to us on Friday February 11th.”
All donations welcome: post to Bishop Michael Jackson, The See House, 152a
Ballagh Road, Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone, BT75 0QP. Please mark the envelope
HLMRF (Holy Land Medical Relief Fund) and indicate if you wish your donation
to be gift-aided (UK only) by stating the following: ‘I am a UK taxpayer
and I wish my donation to be gift-aided’.
Bishop Jackson visiting the neo-natal centre