BibleLands' Egypt appeal hits £150,000 target over two years early
Howard Lake | 16 May 2006 | News
Some of rural Egypt’s poorest inhabitants can look forward to decent living conditions thanks to the success of BibleLands’ Building Hope for the Future appeal.
Only three months after its launch, the appeal has reached its target of £150,000 — the sum BibleLands initially aimed to raise over a period of three years.
More than 50 individuals and groups made single donations of the £1073 needed to build a whole house, while thousands of others contributed towards bricks, floors, roofs, windows and doors.
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The money will be used in partnership with Habitat for Humanity to rebuild and renovate housing in the Upper Nile villages of El Kom El Akhdar and El Sakakrya, where widespread poverty gives rise to squalid living conditions and their associated health problems.
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