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Ed has been working for the last year on emergency preparedness for the Europe Central Area. One of the goals is to have prepositioned supplies in various countries. Our area humanitarian team participated in a survey on Monday to rate products and determine the correct numbers of items needed for individuals and families. Sicily Road…

We worked long hours in the office this week following through on humanitarian projects in all stages of development, implementation, and closure. We had our weekly calls with infield couples, prepared training for couples who will arrive soon, caught up on email correspondence, and coordinated appointments with NGO’s for future travel. Four senior missionary couples…

On Monday evening we flew to Milano, Italy. Our manager Davide picked us up Tuesday morning and we spent the day with employes from the municipality of Milano. We visited a home for unaccompanied minor refugees with needs of furniture, kitchen appliances, computers and a vegetable garden space. Then we visited the Refugee Welcome Center.…

Projects we prepared for approval this week: Door Replacement-Refugees-Rome On July 4 a gas station explosion occurred just meters away from a refugee center in Rome. The explosion severely damaged the building, destroying 25 old wooden doors, cracking walls and compromising the security of the structure. The funds for this project will replace the doors…

We spent a memorable week on the island of Cyprus for a handover of our in-field couples. Elder James and Sister Wendy Lamb are on their way home and Elder and Sister Easter just arrived. We spent two days all together visiting NGO’s following up on current projects and discussing possibilities for future collaboration. After…

We spent LONG 12-hour days working in the office this week trying to catch up after two weeks of traveling. Part of our activities included attending a greenhouse summit meeting. Several countries in our area have active greenhouse projects. This map shows the location of greenhouse, beekeeping, and heifer projects in Bosnia. We prepared the…

We worked at the office until 9:00pm on Monday night and then flew to Italy on Tuesday afternoon. We visited eight NGOs in two days with our regional manager Davide and our Rome in-field couple Elder and Sister Vardeu. We evaluated past projects and met some new NGO colleagues. Rome Municipality of Rome We met…

On Tuesday evening we flew to Athens, Greece with Coraline, our dear Humanitarian Coordinator. We met with eight NGO’s in Athens during a two-day period. The Palmers, our Greece in-field couple who are waiting for visas, joined us virtually for these meetings. Since they are still at home in Utah it meant that they literally…

We spend long days in the office juggling tasks to keep all of our projects moving forward. We need divine help to keep all the balls in the air. Sometimes it feels like we are playing Whack-a Mole. We solve one issue only to have another arise. For instance, the tea bag machine arrived in…

Our quarterly MEAL conference was held this week in Frankfurt. (MEAL standing for measure, evaluate, assess, and learn) Area couples joined us from Paris, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Montenegro, and Türkiye to review what we have learned from our evaluation visits during the last 3 months. We discussed the area strategy for 2026, focusing on sustainability, self-reliance,…