4th World Mallorca

So far this year we have distributed over 200kg of supplies to people in the fourth world in Mallorca. Up to now, aside from distributing an average of over 500kg of supplies a year, we coordinated between restaurants and feeding centers for those in need, but the "Greed Crisis/Credit Crunch" will probably oblige us to help more actively with the feeding of those in need. More on this in the near future.

Christmas Fair , Escoleta Petit Club in Mallorca.

Magdalena Prats and Isabel Pericas are two very dynamic ladies who run the Escoleta Petit Club Nursery in Son Caliu, Mallorca. This year they not only became members and sponsors of Mediterranea but decided to hold a Christmas Fair on the 23rd December in order to raise funds for the children in Ethiopia. A letter was sent to all the parents and immediately the mums started baking cakes and delicious goodies in order to sell at the nursery’s Christmas party. Parents were very generous and sent in children’s clothing and bric a brac items. Family members, older brothers and sisters manned the stalls and the atmosphere was electric! The children of the nursery made a beautiful mural which was mounted on the wall using photographs from the Mediterranea website. €212 .57 was raised and all remaining children´s clothes were donated to the organisation.
A BIG THANK YOU to Isabel, Magdalena and all the children at the nursery.

Ethiopia imposes aid agency curbs

Please visit: Ethiopia imposes aid agency curbs

This news has come as a great surprise to the hundreds of NGOs that operate in Ethiopia.

We will have to look in to this and decide what action we will take.
We will keep you informed. Your observations and information will be of great help to us.

Mothers Lodge

The construction of the lodge is coming on and we hope it will be finished by the end of January 2009.

AT LAST …A CONTAINER FOR CUBA!!!!!

Last Saturday we were loading the container bound for Cuba. It really is a big container the size of a trailer truck and we completely filled it. In six hours we were able to transfer over 630 boxes from the storeroom to the container which was situated on the forecourt of a storage area belonging to one of our collaborators. It was really beautiful to see the group of volunteers mostly British but not forgetting people from Holland, Germany, Spain amongst others, working so hard for six long hours without a rest. The volunteers were of all ages from 4 to nearly 80. These good people offered their saturday afternoon to help Cuba which was marvellous considering that most of them have never been to the country and do not have the emotional ties that we Spaniards have with the Pearl of the Antillas.

The boxes containing medicines worth approximately €15.000 which were purchased from Farmamundi (a pharmaceutical NGO from Valencia), disposable medical material (catheters, syringes, needles, tubes, catheters ...) 100 computers (20 of which we had built for us and the rest were donations we refurbished and installed Linux on), rehabilitation and orthopaedic material for the disabled children and elderly people, a dentist's chair plus orthodontist material, crutches, miscellaneous materials for a maternity unit, new and nearly new clothing in very good condition, medical literature, wiring and other materials useful for repairs, hundredes of spectacles, toys etc, etc. We still have supplies left over that can go on the next container.

All the material submitted is checked and scrupulously following the principle that "what is not good enough for us is not good enough for others ." .

A big Thank you to everybody in saturdays team and all to all our donors, Victoria . (See the video on Youtube: CLICK HERE )

A puppet show in Yeka

Just a few short days ago we were in Ethiopia .

We first came accros the school at Yeka just over a year ago, when it was not part of the Mediterranea Project. Now in just a few short months the change in the school is spectacular, with the incorporation of a dining room, a new kitchen and new bathrooms.

We went along to tell the children the story of the “three little pigs” which must have been a huge novelty.

We had the great fortune of having an Ethiopian narrator to help us. The children really enjoyed the performance and at the end of the story we could hear them sing the song that they had heard during the presentation.