Steve and Oddny Gumaer started Partners Relief and Development in response to the needs of refugees and displaced people from Burma, and now in the Middle East, as well. Their mission is to demonstrate, through holistic action, God’s love to children and communities made vulnerable by war in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and other conflict zones. |
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No amount of training could prepare me for the question that followed: “What size diapers and how many?”
Well, there it is. I didn’t even really know there were different sizes of diapers. Apparently here in Mosul, Iraq, there are five sizes, which makes sense, I suppose. I’d just never really thought about it. The question came in a long line of other questions such as how many rice bags and how many boxes of formula we could afford and what kind of biscuits do we want (the tastier ones, obviously) and how many boxes of tomato paste, flats of juice boxes, and a plethora of other questions that dragged us slowly through the hot, dusty Iraqi afternoon. I tapped away furiously at my calculator and wrote down lists of numbers and added and changed and subtracted and tried to keep everything straight with flies buzzing around my face and sweat dripping slowly into my eyes. The clock slowly moved on. Tick tock, tick tock ...
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Partners Relief and Development is a registered charity in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States. "We’re a small, grassroots nonprofit passionate about making a big impact in communities affected by conflict and oppression, demonstrating God’s love to children and giving them the opportunity to live free, full lives." For more information aboput Partners, visit their website at partners.ngo/
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