Our Center in Ain Ebel, steadfast in its mission and in close collaboration with the Order of Malta and the Municipality, remains committed to its multifaceted endeavors. These encompass three key areas:

Firstly, in the realm of healthcare, our mobile dispensary serves 30 villages, providing essential medical services to those in need.

Secondly, we engage in humanitarian efforts through comprehensive training programs aimed at fostering human development and resilience.

Thirdly, our agricultural initiatives include the cultivation of kharroub and Semmak trees in nurseries, alongside the production of regionally adapted plants. Despite the challenges imposed by the ongoing conflict, our activities persist. The dedicated individuals who drive these endeavors, inspired by their calling as Jesuits, perceive themselves as messengers of hope and agents of positive change.

Indeed, our Center is there with these farmers who, despite the dangers that await them at every moment, are present not only by an act of faith but above all by an exemplary attachment to their land and their villages.

We must recognize that the people of this region believe deeply in what they do and enjoy at least the two virtues: they seek above all to maintain, through their presence, a breath of life in their border villages which since 1948 have only been passing through. from one war to another and to bear their heavy consequences; then by working the land they make life more human and more pleasant... They work the land and plant new trees not only to meet their needs but above all to perpetuate traditions and maintain the brand image of the oil by Aine Ebel has her first place

Of course, in this time of war, travel is almost impossible! but the WhatsApp works and helps us maintain links with our heroes of the south and the sowers of hope. Journalists who operate from the south report testimonies, saying that the people of this region live an experience of extraordinary solidarity and enjoy an exemplary sense of sharing; in addition they are very attentive to the different needs of their neighbors.

Despite all the allies of this situation of uncertainty and war, the Center is now operating at 8/100 of its capacity because the farmers cannot plan and act freely. We are following with them the policy of waiting and presence, hoping for a near return to normal life to allow our nurseries to operate at full capacity to produce at least one million five hundred thousand plants per season to meet the needs of our farmers who live and work in around thirty villages.

Ultimately, maintaining these resource optimization and sustainable development projects in this region is not a simple political or ecclesial act performed as a duty! it is rather considered by the population as a prophetic act which in this time of crises responds well to people's expectations...and gives them a new lease of life allowing them to face this machine of war and death.

Joseph Nassar SJ