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A quarter of century in the service of the most deprived...

Last update: 10.06.2009

Over 100'000 people per year benefit from our help in Sudan.

With CHF 88.- (EUR 58.-), you can feed a little child from one of the displaced camps during a whole year!

With CHF 834.- (EUR 550.-), you can cover the lodging and food expenses for a whole year for an orphan from our homes and farms!

With CHF 265.- (EUR 175.-), you can cover the schooling expenses for an orphan in primary school.

With CHF 193.- (EUR 127.-), you can cover the schooling expenses for an orphan in secondary school.

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Death of Sister Emmanuelle

Sister Emmanuelle passed away on the 20th of October 2008 at 1 a.m. at the age of 99. She would have been 100 years old this coming 16th of November.
During all her life, she got her incredible energy from her faith in God and -as she kept on repeating- from her faith in Man too.

Her fight against poverty and exclusion led her to share for many years the life of the rag people in Cairo. Meanwhile, she never stopped calling upon all the people she encountered: she encouraged them to do something for the destitute, to help them become self-reliant and face life erect on their own feet, stressing above all the education and health care of children.

Thus, the associations that have arisen in Europe around and with her continue this fight through their projects in different parts of the world. As far as the Swiss Association -ASASE- is concerned, its action focuses on Sudan, a country that Sister Emmanuelle visited several times.

Sister Emmanuelle was unanimously appreciated for her straight talking and the values of justice and respect for others she defended. Until the end, and despite her age, Sister Emmanuelle remained a living inspiration for all those who continue and develop her actions, and for the thousands of admirers and friends who support them financially.

Her death leaves a great emptiness in our hearts, but the strength of her thought will help us to be faithful to her motto: "Living is acting, Yallah!"

According to her will, her funeral has been held in strict privacy. To pay tribute to her, a mass will be celebrated on Sunday the 16th of November at 11.30 a.m. in Notre-Dame basilic in Geneva.


Michel Bittar
Président

Our Activities in Sudan at the beginning of the new millennium

The Swiss Association of Friends of Sister Emmanuelle (ASASE) is a nonprofit non-governmental organization (NGO) and a non-religious association, officially recognized as a public charity, and consisting exclusively of volunteers.

Established in 1979 to support Sister Emmanuelle’s activities in the slums of Cairo, the association has, since 1986, focused almost entirely its attention to Sudan and is now taking care of the destitute, particularly the street children.

Since 1996, the Association has also financed the activities of Haiti-Cosmos, an association created in 1993 in Geneva to provide the inhabitants of the Plateau of Hinche in Haiti with technical support.


DVD on ASASE's work

Patrick Bittar, an independent filmmaker, is proposing a personal view on the work of the association ASASE in Sudan.
Neither a promotional film, nor an art documentary, "The Children of the Nile" is an account of an admirable work in a country forgotten for too long by the media.

This 120' DVD presents 6 films, mostly in French:
1 – The history of ASASE told by its founders (27')
2 – Food project for small children (19')
3 – Homes for street children (24')
4 – Farms and workshops for teenagers (21')
5 – Professional training for adults (18')
6 – Medical program (8')

It will make it possible, for those among you who do not know the achievements of ASASE through SVDP in Sudan, to discover them, and for the others to keep a precious and vivid testimony of them.

To order this DVD:
From France
Please send a cheque of 23€ payable to
Patrick Bittar
4, rue Paul-Bert
92130 Issy-Les-Moulineaux
France

From Switzerland and the rest of the world
Association suisse des Amis de Soeur Emmanuelle
19, rue du Rhône
CH-1204 Geneva
Switzerland
info@asase.org


Sister Emmanuelle on video

The following videos are on sale.
To order them, simply send your payment with your name and address to our Association (CCP 12-5593-0). The prices below are inclusive of postage:

  • Sister Emmanuelle at the University of Neuchâtel – VHS or DVD – CHF 25.-
  • Sister Emmanuelle at the Foyer du Vallon for the elderly blind – VHS – 16mn – CHF 20.-
  • Sister Emmanuelle meets the young people of Geneva – VHS – Vivre à quoi ça sert? – 80 mn – CHF 25.-


Music from Sudan

The CD contains songs of different regions and languages of Sudan. The music was sung arranged and recorded by children and young people of the refugee schools/rakubas. It was produced 2002.
The CD can be ordered with a donation of CHF 20.- plus postal rates. Each donation will be fully contributed to our projects for the refugees in Sudan.

Please order the CD at the following address:
Dr. Alfred Höfler
Milackerweg 9
CH-4655 Stüsslingen
Switzerland

or via Email:
alfred.hoefler@gmx.net

Thank you very much for your support.