A widow with three children in a dilapidated house

This widows house before the SHE team worked on it!

Greetings all, 

Because we most often talk about nutrition activities in our blogs, you may not be as aware of the fact that Medair also does shelter (SHE) and health (HEA) work as well in the Rohingya camps. The Shelter team recently posted these two pictures of a widowed woman whose shelter they rehabilitated. Widows can be fairly marginalized in the western world too. But imagine being this woman - widowed with 3 children under the age of 12, trying to make a go of it in the largest refugee camp in the world! She needed a hand! And the Medair SHE team gave her one! 

James 1:27 says, "Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress,...." This feels like a pretty direct answer to that Biblical injunction on how we should care for widows and orphans!

Most of the SHE team's work involves empowering (through training and provision of the necessary supplies) the refugees to do their own shelter rehabilitation. But as this woman fell into the category of an EVI (Especially Vulnerable Individual) and had no relatives to help her build the house, the SHE team was able to do the work for her. 

As this woman's well-being has been improved by the provision of this new shelter, we pray that she would also experience God's shalom in every area of her life!

After the SHE team's work!

Praise for: 

• obtaining new visas (for us as well as our Country Director)
• restarting work well again after our time off!
• the opportunity to serve widows and orphans
• protection of our immediate family members from the virus and ongoing employment for our kids (thus far!)
• the work of our SHE staff!

 Prayer for: 

• the SHE team getting permission from the Camp-in-Charge (CiC) to work in Camp 12 - this authorization has been hung up in beaucratic red tape since the beginning of the year
• the NUT work in Camp 23 where relocation of all the refugees out of the camp is happening (calling into question our work there)
• continued good health for Christine and I
• ongoing protection of NGO staff and refugees from the virus