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A Cooperation of the Lebanese and the German Association of the Order of Malta under the patronage of the Grand Hospitaller Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager . Order of Malta CARAVAN will offer young people the opportunity to do ten month of voluntary work in Lebanon learning and practicing the spirit of the Order of Malta. This spirit of the Order includes two charismas: Tuitio Fidei, strengthening the faith, and Obsequium Pauperum, service for the sick and needy. Both parts will be included in CARAVAN. The participants will be sent to asylums for the handicapped where they will do daily service. Another part of the program will be academic and spiritual by following various courses and seminars specifically organized for the participants. Here, they will learn about Christianity and Islam in the Middle East, about its culture and history. The formation will include seminars as well as outings and field trips.

Sunday, 8 January 2012

Christmas concerts




A belated happy New Year to you all . We wish you peace , love and happiness as we enter this New Year.


The boys with huge smile and sparks in their eyes, more than 200 wrapped gifts, ten musicians, 26 scouts, a lot Lebanese volunteers and Michel as Santa Claus. This scenery happened on the 17th of December in Saint Dominique.The CARAVAN threw its glorious and amazing Christmas-Event.
The preparation for this event started actually long time ago in November, when we did our fund raising-event in a Bar in Monot, to buy gifts for the boys and girls in the homes. This fund raising continued with an e-mail campaign, to raise as much money as possible to let Papa Noel arrive in the homes of our friends. After buying more than 400 gifts, CARAVAN where proving themselves as the perfect little helpers of Papa Noel and wrapped all of them.
But this was not the only preparation we had to made: the girls baked more than 2000 typical German Christmas cookies. These went on little plates together with a bottle of wine as a gift for the caretakers in the homes. Of course there were some leftovers, which were the source of many happy faces with in the CARAVAN.
In between backing cookies and wrapping gifts, we started to rehearsal Christmas songs, to play them at our Christmas events in the homes.
So on Saturday the !7th „Christmasweek“ started with our event in Saint Dominique. With the great support of the Champville Scouts, the Lebanese Youth of the Order of Malta, Michel, the caretakers and our musicians, the afternoon turned out to be a great success. The next day we were invited by Fabio and Nicola, our musician friend, to play some songs as a special guest at their Christmas concert in the Champville School. CARAVAN spread one more time the CARAVAN-spirit to more than a hundred people.
On Thursday the 22nd we had our Christmas event in the home in Antelias. We had the opportunity to play in a big concert hall in front of 200 hundred boys. Yann, as always on the sax, and Fabio, on the bass, supported us for this event, faithfully as always. Since we didn´t had someone to play the darbuka, the typical Arabic drum, Elias, one of the boys, just went up on the stage and played with us. Elias gave the rhythm, one of the caretakers grabbed a microphone and sang Arabic songs with the support of Yann playing the sax. So all in all a great concert, with a lot of fun for the boys and of course for us as well. At the end of the concert Santa Claus, this time Daniel, came and distributed the gifts to the boys.
Thanks to everybody who supported us so great, to bring Christmas to homes of our friends.
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