Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Partners Blog: "Clean Shackles"

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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Clean Shackles

I was looking at a man with a painful leg-and the ankle was encased in a thick metal shackle linked by a chain to the shackle on the other leg. It was loose and not rubbing, and the chain was neatly tied up further up the leg so that it didn’t drag on the ground.

I was struck by how clean the shackles were ...

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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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