Kuchinate Christmas Party


Kuchinate, the asylum seeker women’s workshop in south Tel Aviv, held its annual Christmas party on January 12, 2017. Sister Agnese reports:

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The Christmas Party at Kuchinate has become an annual tradition. To defuse the already difficult and precarious situation in which the African refugee women live, every year we try to organize recreational and relaxing moments to lighten up their burden and trauma. The Christmas Party is a joyful and relaxing event for these women and their children, to keep their traditions alive and to bring relief the lives of these refugees. Thanks to the generosity of some benefactors, we were able to realize this event bringing a bit of joy not only to the mothers but especially to the 65 children, from the age of three months to 11 years.

In the preparation of this event what encouraged us was the joy that we would receive in return from the children. This year we decided to honor the mothers too, the African asylum seekers women, by giving them a plant as a sign of hope for a better future. This was a sign that perhaps out of all the dramatic events experienced and endured, something new and positive would flourish for them and their children. They are single women, left by their husbands; mothers with disabled children; abused and battered women who do not ask anything other than dignity and respect.

Our thanks to everyone who helped make this day a memorable one.

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