Christmas Gift for Nineveh 2008!
Thanks to your generosity and charity, we were able to bring a smile on the face of thousands of Assyrian children in the Nineveh plain in North Iraq (South Assyria). Those who received gifts are adherents of the Syriac Catholic & Orthodox, Chaldean, Church of the East, as well as reformationist churches in Assyria. No matter how small this token of solidarity is, yet it has a big effect on the people in a war torn country such as Iraq.
Santa Claus also visited families of non-Assyrian ethnicity who registered their children for this Christmas project. Race, Belief and Culture did not limit your Christmas message.
Below is the list of towns and villages that Santa Claus visited and delivered gifts:
• Bakhdida 2.000 gifts
• Karemlesh 700
• Bartella 800
• Bah’sheqa and bahzany 700
• Shekhan (Ayn Shefna)750
• Tela 100
• Azekh 100
• Armas 100
• Bebozy 100
• Bero Zawa 100
• Karmawa 100
• Karango 100
• ‘Ayn bakra 100
• Dash kotan 100
• Alqosh 800
• Sharfey 200
• Telleskop 900
• Batnaya 850
• Telkeph 800
• Bakopha 200
And some other smaller villages...
A total of 9600 gifts!
Over the past years, more than twenty-five thousand gifts were given to the kids in the Nineveh plain through the help of the Chaldo-Assyrian Student Union in cooperation with the Assyrian Aid Society.
This year's project was carried out in the western world by the following organisations:
- Assyrians Without Borders (Sweden)
- Zinda Magazine – Assyrian Online Magazine
- Diyarbakir –Tur Abdin Assyrian Association New York-New Jersey
- Assyrian Chaldean Syriac Student Union (ACSSU) of Canada
- Assyrian Youth Federation – Central Europe (AJM)
- Stichting Assyrië Nederland
With thanks to:
- Assyrian Evangelical Church of San Jose – California (USA)
- Assyrian Youth Federation - Netherlands
- Dutch Assyrian Society (DAS)
- The Web Team of www.bethnahrin.nl
- Firodil Institute – London
- Waw-Allap & Marodeen Ebrahimzadeh
- The Web Team of www.huyodo.com
This project was firstly initiated by the Assyrian Academic Society in the USA. This academic society has set up several unique and high quality projects in the Nineveh plain and in the USA. Supporting Assyrian students in different ways has been an ongoing task of the Assyrian Academic Society. For more information, please visit the website of the Assyrian Academic Society: www.aas.net and contact them at: info@aas.net
Below, you can read randomly, the names of the donors of this year's Christmas Gift for Nineveh in the Netherlands and surroundings. Soon we will also post the list of names that supported ACSSU in Canada in this project.
Your charity reached a child in a war torn country!
Thank you:
Fam. S. Simonse- de Koster
E & M Field Engineers – Diemen
Mr. J.C.M. den Biesen, Malphono – Ravenstein
Fam. vd Maas-Verhoeff
Fam. A. Nounakhanakah – Mydrecht
Fam. J.C. Gootjes - Schagen
S.O.W. Parish – Alphen aan den Rijn
Fam. A. Koc – Enschede
Ms. Lydia Tore – Rijssen
Mr. L.W. Barkho – Den Haag
Fam. Oshana Gorges – Kloetinge
Assyrian Evangelical Church of San Jose/ California (USA)
Prof. Hannibal Travis – Florida (USA)
Mr. Wilfred Bet Alkhas -Washington D.C. (USA)
Fam. Johann & Silve Roumee
Fam. G. Demir-Budak – Hengelo
Fam. A. Sumer – Enschede
Mr. Frank Khoshaba – Oldenzaal
Employees of the Provincial Council Overijssel – Zwolle
Fam. (Iqartho) Beth Paulus
Fam. L. A. Nissan – Dutch Assyrian Society President, Woudenberg
Fam. A. Odisho, Woudenberg
Fam. Kuryo Meytap, Mr. (Anwalt)
Prof. Dr. Michael Abdalla –Poland
Fam. H.A.F. Dekhuyzen – Delfgauw
Fam. M.T. Georgis, Zaandam
Fam. A. Adam & V. Adam-George – Arnhem
Dhr J.F. van Nelfen – Ysselstein
Dhr Shikri Angelli –Duitsland
Ashoraya & Ninwaya Mezdo- Peoria, Arizona, US
Fam. S. Chamoun – Hengelo
Fam. H.S. Izhak – Eindhoven
Assyrian Aid Society – Netherlands
Ms. Sara Demir, (Lawyer) – Hengelo
Fam. R.J. Sapper – Haarlem
Fam. K. Fransa/ J. P. Daod – Roosendaal
Mr. Sargon Fransa – Roosendaal
Fam. G. Tunc – Oldenzaal
Fam. Abrohom Tunc – Oldenzaal
Fam. Inan – Oldenzaal
Mr. F.J. Jallo – Utrecht
Children Group of the Assyrian Association Paderborn
Israel Romanus – Wiesbaden
Fam. Isa Ay – Wiesbaden
Fam. Afram Akcan
Fam. Beth Romanus
Fam. Beth Yuhanon
Fam. Aslan– Oldenzaal
S.O.W. Parish – Schagen – Heerhugowaard
Mr. W.J. Hoff – Leiden
Fam. Gorges – Roosendaal
Fam. G. Aslan – Borne
Fam. A. Akman
Mr. Hanna Chamoun – Enschede
Ms. H. Saleem – Rotterdam
Mr. N. Sarkis – Amsterdam
Ms. A. Tunc – Oldenzaal
Mr. N. Mousa – Enschede
Mr F. Coskun – Hengelo
Mr. J. Yousef – Enschede
Fam. S. I. Ibrahim – Heerhugowaard
On-Line-Systems - Enschede
Fam. Ninus Amiri – Montreal – Canada
Assyrian-Suryoyo lady from Enschede (Anonymus)
Syrian Orthodox Priest from Holland (Anonymus)
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