The pharmacy provided necessary medications.
Photo by Toya Hill, PDA/ACT
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) has received the final report on funds sent to the Jinishian Memorial Program (JMP) in Lebanon to respond to needs related to the fall 2006 war.
JMP was able to provide food coupons each month for three months to 538 families. The coupons were for the purchase of groceries from a specified cooperative/supermarket and excluded the purchase of alcoholic beverages and cigarettes. In addition, 487 chronically sick individuals received
medications
from the JMP-Lebanon pharmacy.
Director Sara Pamboukin writes,
“The most significant advantage of this kind of assistance was the fact that people received whatever groceries they needed and whatever prescribed medications they needed.
"Usually relief assistance comes in the form of parcels, or medications that people do not necessarily need or use.
The significance of this approach was that the dignity of people was respected in the way that the assistance was given. For the staff it gave us satisfaction that the assistance was given in the spirit of Christian solidarity, and not in parcels on which political slogans were written.”
For more information on the PCUSA Jinishian Memorial Program, visit the JMP Web site. |
