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SERBIA … our STT Trip Spring into Summer … June ’19

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Friend …

close on the heals of my IRAQ/LEBANON trip, was my next one to SERBIA.  We are so grateful to those who have capacity and choose to sponsor a village for an entire year or more.  Such is one of the members and initiators of this STT-Short Term Team to Djorgovaka Mahala Village, our Roma-gypsy village near Lebane, Serbia.

Assessing, teachings focused on entrepreneurship and family relationships, were the aim.  We are grateful to see the momentum building, as Snezana leads this and other Roma/gypsy villages out of every form of poverty.

My time with Snezana(far left in the below 3-some photo) and the translator were especially good, as I wanted to see better how she was doing personally, after the death of her husband(Slave), two years ago.  The gracious grace in healing and moving her forward, allows her to vest so much of her life in these Roma. 

Technology can assist greatly, as the below photo demonstrates.  We were able to SKYPE in a live-session to this group, from Kolkata, India, where Sushil Marandi was able to guide the group through some TCD issues relevant to any village.

Summer travel plans are so far limited.  Nora and I were pursuing our best to see you in Georgia and the S. East USA.  Due to her desperately needing to rest, after her first year as a para at our local elementary school, her overall health issues, and other needs(text or call for details), we regret that it’s looking like that trip cannot happen this year.  If things change, we will surely let you know ASAP.  Thanks for your understanding!  🙂

Daniel and Nora Emig

Kurdistan-Iraq … Yazidis … ’19

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Yazidis – warehouse – Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan-IRAQ
TCD Training Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan-IRAQ 4-’19 Iraq
Soap-maker entrepreneur -Yazidis – Sulaymaniayah, Kurdistan-IRAQ 4-’19
Ministry of Religious Affairs Erbil, Kurdistan-IRAQ 4’19
Mother & Child Yazidis – Sulaymaniayah, Kurdistan-IRAQ 4-’19
girl & older woman … food to old woman Yazidis – Sulaymaniayah, Kurdistan-IRAQ 4-’19
food distribution Yazidis – Sulaymaniayah, Kurdistan-IRAQ 4-’19
food distribution 2 Yazidis – Sulaymaniayah, Kurdistan-IRAQ 4-’19
Diesel Fuel – Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan-IRAQ 4-’19
Daddy-daughter & family Yazidis Sulaymaniayah, Kurdistan-IRAQ 4-’19

… every face we encountered in Kurdistan-IRAQ, with the Yazidi people, carried a story of trauma … yet hope, that one day, they could return home from the camps of tents and temporary locations they live in.
This trip was rich in helping, coming alongside, and in wide variety of experiences, all new to me, being my first time in the Middle East.

Brief:

*   serving Yazidis displaced by years of conflict, by providing essential food supplies

*   TCD-Transformational Community Development training, for development and their long-term ability to provide for their families

*   Initial relational connections with those in Kurdistan diplomatic leadership

*   warmth via diesel fuel for their heaters in locations without any heat

*   commitments to return and expand our TCD approach to development and sustainability

*   commitments and purchases from local entrepreneurs (soap, in this case), who empower these local communities in vision and new ideas for sustainability

*   local resources purchased and utilized for the distribution to Yazidis … you would be amazed at how a few thousand dollars of food goods, goes a  very long way in relating to local vendors (always our policy when possible)

I cannot thank you enough for all who gave to this trip!

Daniel

LEBANON & NORTHERN IRAQ … February – March 2019 to Kurds & Yazidis !

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Young Mother and Child
Young Mother and Child
Child & Child Crossing Board
Child & Child Crossing Board

$ 2,150 of the $ 4,400 needed, has been given for this trip in February ’19.  Please consider how you might help in the remaining balance of $ 2,250.  Contribute via like here:

http://www.globalhopenetwork.org/us/about/staff/daniel-emig

Boys In the Refugee Camp
Boys In the Refugee Camp
Women Sharing the Work
Women Sharing the Work

 

Team TCD Past
Team TCD Past                                                             Global Hope Network International is leading a short-term team  to go to Lebanon and Northern Iraq to bring help and hope to Syrian refugees and displaced Yazidi families.
Lebanon still struggles having almost 2 million Syrian refugees, within their borders, who fled the war in Syria to find refuge and safety.  Some left their homes as long as 8 years ago and remain refugees to this day as they try to make a daily living to provide and care for their families.
We will serve refugees living north of Beirut.  We will visit the GHNI clinic, meet with Syrian refugees, who live as best they can with multiple families in temporary housing and others living in trap houses and tent communities. 
Northern Iraq  Many Yazidi families still suffer from the affects of war with ISIS.  Many people remain displaced even though the ISIS caliphate has been defeated.  There is still a great amount of danger, preventing them from returning home because of ongoing conflictsbetween various militia and foreign military as well as much of the infrastructure and their homes are destroyed.
We will serve Yazidi families who had to flee when ISIS overran their communities.
With the Syrian and Yazidi families we will distribute food and other necessary items, have fun days with children and parents, teach lessons in Transformational Community Development, Leadership, Family Life, and overall encourage families living in uncertain hopelessness .
This trip is a wonderful opportunity to bring help and hope to people who have gone through tremendous suffering and loss.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TCD NOW !!! Join us in this only 2nd USA event … normally overseas only …

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TCD this week!
This will be our 2nd Transformational Community Development (TCD) training in Monument Colorado, USA!
Register at the link here:

https://cathedralrockchurch.churchcenter.com/…/events/168376

TCD training will teach you an effective, low cost, relational way of bringing transformation that teaches impoverished communities to become self-sustaining hope-filled lives. You’ll also experience “live SKYPE” sessions with nationals doing TCD! 
Please see the information below.
If you wish to sign-up go to registration link above.
If you have any questions please contact me
Michael Parks
407 230 6169
or
Daniel Emig – 719.440.0796
Quick drop-in visits(during lunch etc.) are always welcome, to get a taste of all we do in these countries.