ANERA News & Notes
An Update on ANERA Activitites
January 13, 2011
 
From LEBANON
Milking Machines Ease Workload for Farmers

Im Kamil, 61, says she has arthritis in her hip and the milking machine makes milking a lot easier. Plus, she adds that the machine extracts four kilos more milk each day than they can get from manual milking. Most of the milk she makes into yogurt and sells to her neighbors as well as in a store or two. ANERA has partnered with a local Lebanese NGO to provide milking machiens to 20 farmers in southern Lebanon.  Read more 

From HEADQUARTERS
ANERA President Bill Corcoran Discusses Gaza
ANERA President Bill Corcoran appears on Jim Zogby's TV program 'Viewpoint" to talk about Gaza conditions two years since Israeli bombardments.  He also provides insghts and observations from his latest trip to Lebanon, Jordan, West Bank and Gaza.  Check local cable listings for time and channel to catch it live on Thursday, January 13th. Or, watch the video at www.aaiusa.org
 
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About ANERA
For more than 40 years, ANERA has been a leading provider of development, health, education and employment programs to Palestinian communities and impoverished families throughout the Middle East.  In FY 2009, the relief and development agency delivered more than $50 million of programs to the people of the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon and Jordan.
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