Projects
Pro Terra Sancta promotes recovery, assistance and emergency aid projects in the territories of the Holy Land in the Middle East.
We offer support to the most vulnerable segments of society by focusing our attention on education.
We preserve the Holy Places with the aim of increasing awareness of their value in all local communities.
Humanitarian emergencies in the Middle East, particularly in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan, remain a daily concern.
We support local businesses by promoting the restart of the domestic market and the dignity of personal labor.
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Education and training
Syria/Damascus – Support for local educational works
Assistance to families in difficulty at the emergency center set up in the Franciscan convent of Bab Touma in Damascus.
Lebanon – Support for local educational works
Lebanon is a country devastated by conflict and an unprecedented economic and social crisis , where most of the economic availability comes from the contribution of the Lebanese who left the country in the diaspora and now live elsewhere. In this difficult context, Pro Terra Sancta is active on several fronts to help this tormented […]
Lebanon/Syria – WIP work in progress
The WIP – WORK IN PROGRESS project was created to support those young people who wish to start a business in their place of origin to give hope to their country, even – and especially – when the context is difficult, marked by profound difficulties economic and social issues. Helping to get the internal market […]
Syria/Damascus – The Culture of encounter
Support to the Franciscans friars of the Custody of the Holy Land in assisting Damascus’ local communities.
Syria/Aleppo – A name and a future
Support to the children of East Aleppo and their mothers: provision of essential goods, medical and psychological assistance.
Syria/Lebanon – The Franciscan Care Center
Support for children with trauma at Aleppo’s Franciscan Care Center through sports, cultural activities, psychological help, and rehabilitation.
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Syria/Aleppo/Support for deaf and children with disabilities
Support to ordinary maintenance activities, management, and enlargement of Aleppo’s school for deaf, dumb, and disabled children and purchase of special school equipment to allow them to get education until middle school.
Syria/Knaye and Yacoubieh – Lessons of hope
Support to the management of the two schools located in the convents of Knaye and Yacoubieh and purchase of school equipment for Christian children left behind by the villages’ public schools.
Israel & Palestine – Schools of the Holy Land
Support to the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land in the management of the schools of the Holy Land by providing scholarships for needly children, support to disabled children, organization of extra-curricular activities, training for teachers and parents, ordinary maintenance activities, and provision of equipment.
Greece/Cyprus – Aid for refugees and the poor
Support to friar John Luke Gregory in assisting refugees arrived on the Greek islands of Rhodes and Kos.
Jerusalem/To help African refugees
Collaboration with Jerusalem African Community Center (JACC) which offers social, legal, medical, and psychological assistance to refugees and asylum seekers from Eritrea, Sudan, and Ethiopia. Assistance to children, elderly and disabled people, training for educators and social assistants and support to ordinary maintenance activities.
Jerusalem/Magnificat, notes of peace in the Holy City
Support to training activities for the teachers of Jerusalem’s Magnificat Institute which hosts young people of different cultures and religions, purchase of instruments and organization of musical events in the Holy Land.
Egypt/Cairo – Together with the poor
Support to the Franciscan friars of Cairo’s Musky convent in assistance activities for families in need by providing funds to buy basic goods, and supporting accommodation search and the payment of rent and school fees.
Palestine/Bethlehem – Medical care and support for elderly people
Medical, economic, educational, and psychological support to elderly and most vulnerable people living in Bethlehem, through assistance for medical-surgical interventions, distribution of vouchers to buy medicines, home assistance, daily canteen, physiotherapy, and recreational activities.
Palestine/Bethlehem/Dar Majus Community home
Renovation and construction of Dar Al-Majus center and implementation of listening, orientation and psychological support activities for young people, training courses for artisans, educators and social assistants, music therapy, foreign languages courses, cultural activities, and historical-artistic formative itineraries.
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