{"id":572,"date":"2011-04-11T14:24:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T20:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/disasterresponse\/?p=572"},"modified":"2011-08-18T14:33:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T20:33:09","slug":"libya-tunisian-lend-a-helping-hand-and-car-and-bottle-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/disasterresponse\/libya-tunisian-lend-a-helping-hand-and-car-and-bottle-of-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: Tunisians Lend a Helping Hand&#8230;and Car&#8230;and Bottle of Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_580\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2011\/04\/Water1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-580\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2011\/04\/Water1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/disasterresponse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2011\/04\/Water1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/disasterresponse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2011\/04\/Water1-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refugees at Sousha refugee camp getting water.<\/p><\/div><em>Who is paying [for all these supplies].<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe\u2019re paying, of course. And our friends and family back home.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHow long will you continue?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFor as long as the money lasts.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is an exceprt from a conversation with Aomed Aowel, an ordinary Tunisian who left his home in the capital city of Tunis to drive (if my estimates are correct) around 7 hours to bring food and water to refugees crossing the border from Libya. And as the days have progressed he, his friends and others Tunisians they have recruited, have been bringing supplies of food and water to help meet the basic needs of people coming into Sousha camp.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not heroes. We&#8217;re just helping our brothers.&#8221; This is the response he gives to what they are doing. Heroes or not they are helping to do God&#8217;s work and for that we give thanks.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about Aomed&#8217;s story as well as the work being done by the ACT Alliance read their update <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actalliance.org\/stories\/solidarity-without-borders\">Solidarity without borders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n<em>Gifts to ELCA International Disaster Response allow the church to respond globally in times of need. <a href=\"https:\/\/community.elca.org\/sslpage.aspx?pid=455\">Donate now.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is paying [for all these supplies]. \u201cWe\u2019re paying, of course. And our friends and family back home.\u201d \u201cHow long will you continue?\u201d \u201cFor as long as the money lasts.\u201d This is an exceprt from a conversation with Aomed Aowel, an ordinary Tunisian who left his home in the capital city of Tunis to drive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5359,5366],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libya","category-tunisia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Libya: Tunisians Lend a Helping Hand...and Car...and Bottle of Water - Lutheran Disaster Response<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/disasterresponse\/libya-tunisian-lend-a-helping-hand-and-car-and-bottle-of-water\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Libya: Tunisians Lend a Helping Hand...and Car...and Bottle of Water - Lutheran Disaster Response\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Who is paying [for all these supplies]. \u201cWe\u2019re paying, of course. 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