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The Social Committee of
the Druze Confessional Council issues information and numbers in
rectification of the incorrect information
The Brigadier General
Issam Abou Zaki, President of the Social Committee at the Confessional
Council of the Druze Unitarian Community issued the following statement:
The Social Committee at
the Confessional Council of the Druze Unitarian Community has made all
required efforts to achieve the goals for which it was established in spite
of all the obstacles it has faced. Thus, by the help of God and the
perseverance of the committee’s members, this committee succeeded in
achieving some of its goals even if they were still under the expected
esteems and ambitions.
The achievement of
these goals was made at first and particularly thanks to the immigrants
abroad, through the donations that their pure and generous hands offered to
help the families of the martyrs and the injured of the war as well as the
indigent students.
The Social Committee
accepted the invitation of the Druze communities abroad to participate in
conferences in London and Brazil where the first stone of the Brazilian
Druze House in Alfoz De Ajousoua was laid and the suspended conflicts were
settled. During its visit to Brazil, the Committee also strengthened the
communication between the Lebanese immigrants of all religions.
At the end of the year
2009, the Social Committee organized its first annual dinner at Commodore
Hotel and which profits totalized 58475 US Dollars allocated to support the
Committee’s projects related to education and hospitalization. In 2010, the
Committee organized its second annual charitable dinner at Bristol Hotel and
which profits totalized 90117 US Dollars allocated to support the
Committee’s projects related to education and hospitalization.
The Social Committee
collected donations from immigrants abroad, which allowed it to allocate an
amount to the parents of the martyrs and injured of the actions of May 2008,
totalizing 305303 US Dollars. The committee also collected donations from
abroad at a total of 155995 US Dollars for the years 2009 and 2010 in order
to support its projects related to education and hospitalization. In the
year 2011, the Social Committee addressed to a number of generous inside
Lebanon in order to support its educational project for the academic year
2011/2012. It obtained donations of 34 million Lebanese Pounds.
The Social Committee
concluded contracts with Rafic Hariri University Hospital, the Druze health
institution Ain w Zein, the governmental Hospital of Rachaya, the
governmental Hospital of Western Chahar, the Irfan Medical Center and the
Hospital of the Jabal, in order to cover the difference of the Ministry of
Health for the patients who follow treatments at any of the aforementioned
institutions, provided that the sum does not exceed four hundred thousand
Lebanese Pounds for each case. The value of the Social Committee
contribution in this field reached 297841739 Lebanese Pounds for 2000
hospitalization case from 2008 to 2011.
The total of the
financial aids that were equally distributed to the parents of the martyrs
of the actions that happened on May 2008 and to some injured with dangerous
injuries or those affected by permanent paralysis, reached 335409 US Dollars
until the end of the year 2011.
As for the educational
field, the Social Committee contributed in helping 1106 students for the two
academic years 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 at an amount of 214100000 Lebanese
Pounds, knowing that the students were selected according to two criteria:
the financial need of the student and the grades he obtained during the
previous year.
In addition, the Social
Committee offers social monetary aids for the difficult cases it deals with,
the value of these aids reached 49803000 Lebanese Pounds for 617 cases
during the two years 2010 and 2011.
As for its activities,
the Social Committee organized dialogue sessions in Shouf, Aley, Rachaya and
Hasbaya in order to reinforce the communication between the Confessional
Council and the sons of the Community and listen to the constructive
opinions and suggestions for the good of all the Lebanese and the public
interest.
The Social Committee
visits the prisons periodically to supervise the situation of the prisoners,
sons of the Community and pursue their claims. It also made, in cooperation
with the concerned institutions, many phone calls in order to ameliorate the
situation of the prisons.
I seize the occasion of
the end of the present year to expose these information and numbers to the
sons of the Druze Unitarian Community, based on the transparency obligation
and in rectification of the incorrect information that are being circulated
from time to time and that are reaching the Confessional Council
institutions.
It is a pleasure for me
at this occasion to address the most sincere wishes of the new coming year
to the honorable sons of the Community and to all the Lebanese, hoping that
they enjoy, and their country Lebanon, a year full of prosperity and
stability and that agreement and understanding replace separation and
division.
Brigadier General
Issam Abou Zaki,
President of the
Social Committee
At the Confessional
Council
Of the Druze
Unitarian Community. |
