# BibleLands' Egypt appeal hits £150,000 target over two years early

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/05/16/biblelands039-egypt-appeal-hits-150000-target-over-two-years-early/
- Published: 2006-05-16T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

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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