{"id":3787,"date":"2012-08-23T15:40:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T15:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/2012\/08\/23\/a-dream-come-true-50669\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T15:16:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T19:16:31","slug":"a-dream-come-true-50669","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/a-dream-come-true-50669\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8220;Dream&#8221; Come True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNEWA Canada is very excited to partner with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwl.ca\/\">Catholic Women\u2019s League (C.W.L.) of Canada<\/a> for a joint venture called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/cwl-holy-land\/\">Velma\u2019s Dream<\/a>,\u201d named after outgoing C.W.L. President, Velma Harasen. The Catholic Women\u2019s League is a national lay association of women and is the largest organization of Catholic women in Canada \u2014 with over 1,300 councils across Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, CNEWA Canada National Director Carl H\u00e9tu visited the Annual National Convention for the C.W.L. held in Edmonton, AB, Canada, from 12 to 15 August 2012. He was invited to speak to 950 delegates on the topic of Christians of the Middle East. He inspired and challenged them to bring hope to these Christians, who are a minority and caught in the midst of power struggles. We can help them keep the light of Christ burning in the Holy Land by being in solidarity with them, since they are part of the family of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>Carl also gave the Catholic Women\u2019s League an update on a project they are supporting in Holy Land \u2014 the education program of the Infant Welfare Center in Jerusalem, which works at getting youth who have dropped out of school back into the classroom. The project has now been fully funded, meeting its goal thanks to the generosity of women and councils across Canada. The funds will be sent this September for implementation.<\/p>\n<p>During the National Convention, the C.W.L. approved the funding of a second project. This new dream is to support the Beit Sahour Cooperative Society in the Bethlehem area, to provide affordable quality health care for poor families \u2014 especially pregnant women and newborn babies through the Shepherd\u2019s Field Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Another example of their generosity is that approximately $2,500 was collected at Masses during the National Convention to go towards this second project. What a wonderful witness of solidarity with Christians in the Holy Land. Carl enjoyed his time spent at the Annual National Convention and in Edmonton. To all the wonderful ladies of the Catholic Women\u2019s League, we say: \u201cThank you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To support Velma\u2019s Dream, visit our website by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/cwl-holy-land\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNEWA Canada is partnering with the Catholic Women\u2019s League of Canada to support humanitarian projects in the Holy Land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70080,"featured_media":15096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"class_list":["post-3787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A &quot;Dream&quot; Come True | CNEWA Canada<\/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:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/a-dream-come-true-50669\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A &quot;Dream&quot; 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